“I want to work with great directors. I want to work on good material with good actors. I've probably done 20 movies at this point and a lot of independents. It's been an incredible ride and I love it and I'm just going to keep going and doing what I'm doing.”

“Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way.”

“When newspapers started to publish the box office scores of movies, I was horrified. Those results are totally fake because they never include the promotion budget.”

“The dubbing of the music and effects is really incredible today. You're feeling gun shots. I mean, it's not the way people say it is, but the gunshot sounds real. And cars sound real. Among the many things in the evolution (of movies) is to make the sound in the movie incredible. That's what you feel.”

“All my good movies, nobody sees.”

“I don't generally do movies that get good reviews.”

“I haven't seen Clones, which has been during this period when I haven't seen much of anything, but I did see Phantom Menace, and see my feelings about it - see, first of all, I think that when you make a lot of movies, your attitude about the movies changes.”

“Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human.”

“I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.”

“I've only been to high school on TV and in movies. I've never actually been to high school.”

“I still think that movies are amazing I respect actors and directors.”

“When we shoot 24, there are so many things I have to worry about, from the script to technical things to my performance, that I don't have a second to be bored or take anything for granted. We produce 24 hours of film a season, which is like making 12 movies.”

“Movies are very subjective.”

“My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the 'Grapes of Wrath,' his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day.”

“I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of.”

“One of the reasons why people - particularly young people - love action movies is because what they are really looking for is justice.”

“A lot of times, we're just sold these movies that are really cynically conceived and marketed, and they just want you there opening weekend, before everybody finds out it's not so good.”

“Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.”

“For movies to get greenlit solely based on the success of other movies that have a lot of women in them? It's so ridiculous to me.”

“Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.”

“Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry.”