In 3-D filmmaking, I can take images and manipulate them infinitely, as opposed to taking still photographs and laying them one after the other. I move things in all directions. It’s such a liberating experience.

You just don’t know when you get in the editing room what you will need as a link or a tool for a transition. If you’re in a room, and there’s a kettle boiling, get a shot of it. Don’t worry if people think you’re nuts.

When we talk about how movies used to be made, it was over 100 years of film, literal, physical film, with emulsion, that we would expose to light and we would get pictures.

The movie business is a big gamble.

A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.

On ‚Mystic River,‘ I had to cut my salary and everyone else’s to get it made.

Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.

I don’t plot my books rigidly, follow a preconceived structure. A novel mustn’t be a closed system – it’s a quest.

The secret to film is that it’s an illusion.

When I’m making an American film, it’s more safe because there are so many people on the set to watch me. Whatever I do, they say, ‚What are you doing!? Tell me first!‘ There are so many restrictions.

I loved the material when I first read it, and the experience of making the film was a great one. So when we came around to complete the trilogy, I just signed on board without even reading the scripts because the experience of the first film was so good.

I’m always secretly the most pleased when a show just really, really looks good and when my camera guys are really happy with the images they got.

Being a stunt coordinator, I have to take care not only of myself but I have to make sure everyone is safe.

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

Where I think the most work needs to be done is behind the camera, not in front of it.

I’ve rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert.

Hope is the magic carpet that transports us from the present moment into the realm of infinite possibilities.

I’ve made money, and I’ve been ripped off. I’ve had creative freedom, and I’ve been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will.

Other than obvious errors like forgetting a line, often I can’t see any difference between take one and take 20.

Obviously, the cinematography of films is art, just as a still shot can be art. If I’m watching a Wes Anderson movie, the colour palettes alone, and the way they’re painted, could be art. With music, you’re a little bit limited, of course, because it’s only audio.

My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It’s not just 15-year-old girls. That’s kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.