Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Humor is unavoidable. It might not feel funny in the moment, but more often than not there's a light at the end of the tunnel.
It was always my dream to be a director. A lot of it had to do with controlling my own destiny, because as a young actor you feel at everyone's disposal. But I wanted to become a leader in the business.
One of the great things about being a director as a life choice is that it can never be mastered. Every story is its own kind of expedition, with its own set of challenges.
Confidence is preparation in action.
I think it's in our nature to try to get beyond that next horizon. I think that when we as a species are scratching that itch we're actually following an evolutionary compulsion that is wired into us. I think good things come of it. That's the philosophical side.
There's a very real argument that the minute we are capable of going to a planet, whether it's Mars or another one, and inhabiting it, that we really should.
I'd like to do a really masculine film.
It is only natural to expect that guilds will tend to "protect their turf" and to resist challenge.
Communism introduced into the world a substitute for true religion. It is a counterfeit of the gospel plan.
So as soon as the land was worth something and there was money in the bank, all of a sudden everybody got interested in non-discrimination, in who's really going to administer this stuff.