I come out of TV. I come out of live television, BBC drama: that's where I started first as a designer, then a director. Then I went independent TV, then television advertising.

One of the problems with science fiction, which is probably one of the reasons why I haven't done one for many, many years, is the fact that everything is used up. Every type of spacesuit is used up, every type of spacecraft is vaguely familiar, the corridors are similar, and the planets are similar.

Good FBI officers are not noticeable. You would never look at them.

It's everything and I always make decisions about the cast.

The 3D world allows you to engage even more with a film because you're somehow drawn into the landscape or the universe of that scene. Even when it's two people talking at a table, you feel like you're a third party.

Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict.

I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do.

'The Duellists' won Cannes, but Paramount didn't know how to release a film about two guys in bizarre breeches, waving swords around. I actually think it's a pretty good Western.

Sacred texts give no specific depiction of God, so for centuries, artists and filmmakers have had to choose their own visual depiction.

I'm a reader. I found out that, whether you're a studio head or a director, you must read your own material. You can't rely on readers.

Sometimes, scenes are great without any music at all.

Business fascinates me. It's very creative.

I'm used to very strong women because my mother was particularly strong, and my father was away all the time. My mother was a big part of bringing up three boys, so I was fully versed in the strength of a powerful woman, and accepted that as the status quo.

I do a pretty good job at casting actually.

Cast is everything.

Scaring someone's the hardest thing to do, and that's why most of these scary movies are not scary. They're sick, but not scary. There's a lot of sickness out there, of people who then sit there and watch it, which I think is absolutely dismaying.

I'm really intrigued by those eternal questions of creation and belief and faith. I don't care who you are, it's what we all think about. It's in the back of all our minds.

Technology continues to bring us wondrous advances in filmmaking to improve how we view movies.

The ego is there, but I'm learning to channel it.

The Gulf of Mexico, they believe, is a huge asteroid. That was an impact zone, you know that? Yeah, for that big a thing to actually hit our globe, it would have had to adjusted the spin, the axis.

I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial.

Sometimes I find I'm wearing a divided, split brain in terms of drama and humor.

Technology will need to make many more huge leaps before one can ever view films with the level of picture and sound quality many film lovers demand without having to slide a disc into a player, especially with the technical requirements of today's 3D movies.

If I buy a new car, I rip the rearview mirror off because I don't like to look back.

I'm from the future, I'm from the past, but I'm also from the present, because I'm a gift.

I'm the most underrated, most hated, greatest of all time.

Tattoos aren't fun unless you're an idiot. It's not fun to get tattoos.

My mom was a pilot, and my dad wrestled polar bears.

I quit school. I don't do good in following police guidelines or restrictions. For someone to put rules on a genre of music or put me in a category of rap, I can't even see how you can do that.

It's like this: I've had the same mentality since I was five years old.

I'm 20 years ahead of social times. What does that tell you? That tells you that when I was four that I was thinking the same as the average human on 24.

I mean, I'm about having fun. I'm not about what other people say.

I don't got nobody writing my lyrics and that's why I freestyle.

I'm the Most Lyrically Flamboyant Artist of All Time.

Whenever Jamie Foxx was on 'In Living Color' and then you saw him sing, it didn't take away from either of those things.

My dad was like a street basketball player. He had a real mysterious life.

People always think I just focus on rap, but I listen to every type of music. If I like a song it don't matter what genre of music it is. I might listen to Duran Duran, I might listen to Sublime, maybe Red Hot Chili Peppers.

There's no right or wrong answer in an interpretation. It's all in the person who's interpreting, and how you feel about something.

I don't care about perception I care about cars, girls & money.

Icons speak icon language.

At one point in time I was eating sushi like five days a week.

I need everything first-class. If it's not a private plane, I need everything first-class. Flights, I need hotel suites, I need the best hotel in town, the top of the line best hotel suite.

Growing up I loved this brand, and if someone would have told seven year old me that I would be selecting color combos with the originator of Gecko I would have cried.

Somebody's trying to sell you a Mercedes and he pulls up in a Civic with mustard stains on his shirt, dipping a pretzel in some cheese? Nobody wants to hear what you say unless you look like somebody.

I have country songs, I have rock songs, I have songs that don't even sound like songs.

I can't skateboard. I don't know how to do that!

I care about the here and now. I care about what's in front of me. Am I having fun or not? That's all I care about. I just do what I want.

I make a lot of money. I wear a lot of jewelry. And the reason I buy so much jewelry is to show you that it's not a joke. You walk around with $20,000 on, you not to be played with.

I've had no money, I've had a lot of money, I've lost a lot of money. I've been back and forth with everything. That's why other people's input doesn't really matter to me, because nobody's put me where I'm at.

I do whatever I feel like doing cause it's in my brain.