“Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.”

“The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.”

“To be honest, I don't enjoy watching movies much when I'm working. They tend to fall apart on me a bit.”

“There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.”

“There's this index that tallies up how much your movies have made, and if they haven't grossed a certain amount, then you're not bankable. I know I'm not Will Smith but, you know, my ranking's pretty low. The only studio picture I've done is 'Zodiac,' and that didn't perform that well.”

“I never really got nightmares from movies. In fact, I recall my father saying when I was three years old that I would be scared, but I never was.”

“I think movies do play a valuable role in turning people on to the act of reading. I think that phenomenon just creates readers. At first they're going to love 'Harry Potter,' or they may love 'The Hunger Games,' but after that, they're going to love the act of reading and wonder, 'What else can I read?'”

“My wife comes with me on all the movies, but she is not an appendage to a film star or anything like that. She is a completely intertwined partner. She is the other half of me. Also, we're still very much in love with each other. We always have been, we always will be.”

“I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.”