I Don't Look At Scripts. I Just

Everybody Is Always Talking About Droughts And Sea Level Rise, But When Human Civilization, With More Crowding And Greater Resource Depletion, Is Under That Much Stress, It Translates Into Wars And Huge Displaced Populations. The Syrian Refugee Crisis Is Just A First Taste Of What It's Going To Be Like. I Don't Want My Kids Growing Up In That Kind Of World.

There Is A Vast Frontier That's Going To Take Us A While To Understand... It Was Very Lunar, A Very Desolate Place, Isolated.

If You Set Your Goals Ridiculously High And It's A Failure, You Will Fail Above Everyone Else's Success.

I Tried [being A Mogul]. It Bores Me. I Don't Really Want To Produce Other People's Movies. Because They're Either Grown-up Filmmakers Like Steven Soderbergh Or Kathryn Bigelow That Didn't Really Need Me - And I've Produced Both Of Them. It's Fun To Sit Around With Them And Be Collegial, But They Don't Need Me. They Can Make The Film Without Me. I Make My Own Stuff. There Are Tons And Tons Of Other Things I'm Interested In That Have Nothing To Do With Movies Or Are Documentary Projects.

Religions Fulfill Deep-seated Psychological Needs For People, And If You Don't Get It From A Specific Religious Doctrine, You'll Get It From The Kind Of Films I Like To Make. A Film Like The Terminator Is Consciously Meant To Give A Sense Of Empowerment To The Individual.