“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.”