“I remember looking through magazines or watching movies even just a couple of years ago and being like, 'I really want to be part of that,' but not realizing what that was.”

“I really like Gwyneth Paltrow a lot, as far as her career, because I think she's done a lot of small movies but she's also done great, big movies, and she's a really great actress.”

“I use to watch like maybe three or four movies, five days out of the week. I was a movie buff, but I really didn't know what it was like behind the scenes, or the whole political process of it.”

“I'm trying to figure myself out through my movies. Whether it's big stuff like what we're doing here, or little stuff like, 'Why aren't I happier?' With every film I feel like I'm apologising for something. I feel I'm most successful when I'm looking for something that embarrasses me about my character that I'd like to expose.”

“I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean.”

“I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.”

“I have personal beliefs and they are sometimes reflected in the movies I make, but I also reflect other points of view.”

“I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.”

“When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.”

“I mean, I kind of remember... I'm 36 now, so it's kind of hard for me to relate to what it was like when I was 25, or 24, but I do remember a period in time when that's how I defined who I was, by the music I listened to and the movies I went to.”

“If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.”

“Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.”

“I've made over 20 movies, and 5 of them are good.”

“I like to hang out with my friends. I love music. I like to go to the movies. I like to eat. I like to cook.”

“I've managed to do movies and still keep a lifestyle where I can go to ballgames, go to a grocery store like everybody else.”

“Dude, I didn't say Jude Law can't act. I didn't say Jude Law was in bad movies. I just said he's in every movie.”

“With the CGI, suddenly there's a thousand enemies instead of six - the army goes off into the horizon. You don't need that. The audience loses its relationship with the threat on the screen. That's something that's consistently happening and it makes these movies like video games and that's a soulless enterprise. It's all kinetics without emotion.”

“I really don't like to do back-to-back movies. I concentrate on things at home. My family and school life are important to me. I try to do one movie a year.”

“My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.”

“There's definitely a large fan base for the 'Twilight' and 'Harry Potter' movies that need their next fix.”

“The reason I keep making movies is I hate the last thing I did. I'm trying to rectify my wrongs.”