I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
I love movies that ask big questions but don't necessarily answer everything. I like people walking out thinking about something.
Go out and make something that reflects your interests, your taste, and your ideas. No one will pay you to make something until you have a few things you can show that you've directed. I got my start by making short films on my own.
I think the excitement of movies is discovering stuff you weren't expecting, and I hope to preserve that.
Disney's clearly in the business of doing giant tent pole movies based on properties that they own. And that's what they should be doing because they're great at doing that.
There are a lot of limitations so you have to ultimately focus on what you think the most important storyline is.
As a director, if you know what you want, then it's not scary.
Islam is the religion of peace. And Islam, genuine, real Muslims are as opposed to Al-Qaeda and ISIS as we are. That is what has been dictated to our law enforcement agents by their superiors. If those were your instructions, and you have a terror attack and you're out there reporting to the media, trying to answer questions, you'd sound like a babbling buffoon, too, because you'd have to come up with ways to violate the very common sense you know is true.
Christ and the life of Christ is at this moment inspiring the literature of the world as never before, and raising it up a witness against waste and want and war. It may confess Him, as in Tolstoi's work it does, or it may deny Him, but it cannot exclude Him; and in the degree that it ignores His spirit, modern literature is artistically inferior. In other words, all good literature is now Christmas literature.
I think that it's a universal urge to have our pain not be felt alone and to have our joys not be felt alone.
India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples.