“I learned a lesson which I didn't heed: Don't put yourself in your movies. It's too much.”

“Skinniness is not your friend when you're over 40. I'd like to gain a good 10 pounds, but I did always have a fat, round face that plagued me when I was young. When I started to make movies, I couldn't look at myself.”

“In America, we have so many movies and so much media about the Islamic world, the sub-continental world, but it's not a conversation, it's a monologue. It's always from one point of view. 'If we don't tell our own stories, no one will tell them' is my mantra.”

“Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies.”

“3D is quite a lot more advanced in animated movies for live-action movies we're just taking baby steps, we're just in the beginning.”

“There are a lot of movies I'd like to throw away. That's not to say that I went in with that attitude. Any film I ever started, I went in with all the hope and best intentions in the world, but some films just don't work.”

“I cry a lot, you know. Which is very difficult for a man to recognise, but I do. I cry in movies, you know, just watching movies.”

“People called '28 Days' and '28 Weeks' zombie movies, and they're not! It's some sort of virus they're not dead.”

“Yes, I'm going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President.”