"The only person who can, with impunity, make the movie he wants to make, has got to be Steven Spielberg."

"Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls."

"I think a story should take as long to tell as it is appropriate to that particular story."

"Stanley Kubrick was a big inspiration. People accuse me of never using my own material. But when did Kubrick? You look at his films and they are completely unique... completely separate entities."

"The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard."

"When we started, we knew the show was going to be hit or miss, and we needed to find a core audience to really make us survive. And I think we've been able to do that."

"I just think that the collective experience of going to see a film is something you can't recreate."

"I think provincialism is an endemic characteristic with mankind, I think everybody everywhere is provincial, but it is particularly striking with Texans, and we tend to be very Texcentric."