"Don't give me any money, don't give me any people, but give freedom, and I'll give you a movie that looks gigantic."

"The studios don't finance anymore, they get outside funds."

"I want to push technology boundaries to be more efficient."

"You ask any moviemaker what their favorite movie experience was, and they'll say it was one of the first ones, where everyone had to pitch in and do everything together, and you had to struggle."

"The great growling engine of change - technology."

"Listen, there are some movies that are set in stone and the writer or the director does not want to change, but I've never worked on a movie, including my own, that didn't take advantage of a rehearsal process."

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

"A resilient spirit knows that every challenge is an invitation to grow stronger."