1. “Rivalry doesn’t help anybody.”
2. “Defeat is always momentary.”
3. “The vast majority of the CGI budget is labor”
4. “Actors will never be replaced. The thought that somehow a computer version of a character is going to be something people prefer to look at is a ludicrous idea”
5. “Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it.”
6. “If you work at love, you will find love at work.”
7. “We’ve all forgotten how to be original.”
8. “The director has to win, because you should never force a director to shoot something they don’t believe in.”
9. “There’s a generation of children who don’t like black and white movies. There’s a level of impatience or intolerance.”
10. “Remember, pain is temporary; film is forever.”
11. “I regard myself as an entertainer much more than an artist.”
12. “As human beings, we always have resistance against things that are different and there’s always suspicion.”
13. “Once upon a time sound was a new technology.”
14. “Prosthetic makeup is always frustrating.”
15. “Once you go down a road, you take it through to the end.”
16. “The only thing about 3-D is the dullness of the image.”
17. “To be an original is probably the hardest quality to find if you’re a young filmmaker.”
18. “Anything you can imagine, you can put on film.”
19. “Film is such a powerful medium. It’s like a weapon and I think you have a duty to self-censor.”
20. “It’ not a happy time when a film drops dead on your doorstep.”
21. “I was bullied and regarded as little bit of an oddball myself.”
22. “It is now such a complex society in terms of media. It just comes at us from every direction. You kin of have to push it all away.”
23. “You can’t always look at life as a miserable thing.”
24. “Learning how to edit movies was a real breakthrough.”
25. “You don’t want to believe everything you read on the Internet.”
26. “While you’re finding evidence of innocence, you also find evidence that points to other people.”
27. “I always have ha a slightly jaundiced view about people who promote books about themselves.”
28. “Strategically, horror films are a good way to start your career. you can get a lot of impact with very little.”
29. “Continuing advances in stem cell medicine will change all of our lives for the better.”
30. “I want to put everything I think I’ve learned about filmmaking and storytelling and put it to the test in other areas.”
