“Cinema is entertainment, and people go to the movies because they want to feel good and forget about everything.”

“I mean, the trouble with some of the kind of relationship movies I've done, is there's only so many ways you can shoot a conversation. I was really tired of talking heads.”

“If your movies don't perform, they just stop calling you.”

“Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.”

“I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw 'Doctor Zhivago' every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater.”

“I don't want to criticize any other designers, but I have to say that many of the people involved in this industry - directors and producers - are trying to make their games more like movies. They are longing to make movies rather than making videogames.”

“But when you're writing a script - for me anyway - you have to sort of create an enforced innocence. You have to divest yourself of worrying about a lot of stuff like what movies are hot, what movies are not hot, what the budget of this movie might be.”

“I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.”

“I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.”