Work on nothing less than epic scale

It takes no imagination to live within your means.

Most directors have one masterpiece by which they are known. Kurosawa has at least eight or nine.

The things you get fired for when you’re young are the same things that you get lifetime achievement awards for when you’re old.

There can't be art without risk. It's like saying No Sex, and then expecting there to be children.

Time is the lens through which dreams are captured.

I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.

Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most.

Death is what makes life an event.

Drinking wine is just a part of life, like eating food.

I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.

You don't have to specialize - do everything that you love and then, at some time, the future will come together for you in some form.

Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.

There's nothing creative about living within your means.

My talent is that I just try and try and try and try again and little by little it comes to something.

I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.

It's nice to get invited to the parties and to be able to hobnob and celebrate a job well done with your colleagues.

I want to have the fun of doing anime and I love anime, but I can't do storyboards because I can't really draw and that's what they live and die on.

I write movies about mavericks, about people who break rules, and I don't like movies about people who are pulverised for being mavericks.