The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago, and they’re all driven by the possibilities of CGI, which means you can make anything happen on screen that you can possibly desire.
And I’m not apolitical – I’m very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it’s nobody’s business unless you’re over at my house having dinner.
I don’t follow football, I just love the name Aston Villa. Here in England you have other footballing entities like Manchester and Arsenal and Chelsea.
If they could offer up a way to go to the moon that wouldn’t kill you, I’d sign up.
I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.
Mama always said, dying was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn’t.
Mama always had a way of explaining things so I could understand them.
This is what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination.
My job has always been to hold a mirror up to nature.
You have to adhere to a philosophy that the life unexamined is not worth living, because otherwise you’re just living from day to day and you don’t have any real sense of yourself or where you are.
I’m lucky enough to be able to make only movies I’m interested in seeing. That has to be an instinctive thrust. The audience knows when you’re faking it. They can hang any kind of moniker they want on me.
The power of the individual is as powerful as the universe is infinite.
But I also think all of the great stories in literature deal with loneliness. Sometimes it’s by way of heartbreak, sometimes it’s by way of injustice, sometimes it’s by way of fate. There’s an infinite number of ways to examine it.
Being politically correct means always having to say you’re sorry. Believe me, the power and pleasure and the emotion of this moment is a constant speed of light.
Dear God, thank you for my life. I forgot how big and wonderful it is.
I come from the school of That Horse is Not Dead.
It just so happens that my body type and my lifestyle gives me a preclusion for high blood sugars.
For some people, I will be Forrest Gump for the rest of my life. But that’s OK; that’s a good thing.
I am who I am, and I think I have a good nature, by and large. But if someone takes advantage of that good nature, well then, you know, I’m not that nice a guy.
When I was growing up, everybody in charge, my parents and teachers, had all survived the war, and they talked about the war like it was the Kraken – you know, this huge beast that roamed the earth during their formative years.