"I've always been very strong minded on character-based fights and character-based action. If you take the character out of the action and you just shoot it as an action sequence, the audience starts to lose connection."

“Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source.”

Source : Ron Nessen (2011). “Making the News, Taking the News: From NBC to the Ford White House”, p.178, Wesleyan University Press

“As long as one has a garden, one has a future. As long as one has a future, one is alive.”

“For every wacky postcard, there's a million people waiting to buy it, and for every $10 million of those things, there's one Rembrandt. Purposely, I think I want to aim at doing something that a lot of people won't like. I'm just worried that it looks like I've compared my work with Rembrandt. "Gervais says he's better than Rembrandt!".”

“I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.”

“In a world addicted to speed, I blur the moments into one unholy smear.”

“Doing designs on a loom takes a lot of talent and experience, and, trust me, I won't be able to do that.”

“Always push beyond what you can do.”

“My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.”