The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much.
I'm not sure blogs are necessarily the best place to get a pulse on anything. People want to blog for a variety of reasons, and that may or may not be representative.
I always try to keep the confidence of the actors, and try my best to make them feel comfortable or confident.
Everyone wants to look their best, everyone has dreams of wanting to look like something else. But we are who we are.
The market is ridiculously overcrowded with early stage investors. This results in a talent drain, where the best talent gets diffused and work for their own startups.
The best work for creative folks on the team is when the problem is big and the solution escapes everyone.
I loved flying as much as I thought I would and continue to fly aircraft.
The most interesting thing was looking out the window and taking photographs of different places on Earth.
I am very aware that I'm one of the luckiest people who ever lived.
In our house we say 'adolescence' is a western word. We don't believe in it.
Don't let the American accent fool you. I am British.
Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
I borrowed a creaky laptop from my husband, went into the web, and never came back.
If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
I strongly believe that we as a nation can be both secure and free.
I've always thought there was something very marvelous and magical about mirrors, and that they are connected to memory as well.
Grief is an emotion that's almost unplayable because you're in a separate emotional state; it's an inconsolable emotion.
I generally try to avoid talking about my old films - I find it difficult.
There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.
Long term I do believe internationally there is a huge misunderstanding of Russia.
'Taken' is a really difficult project because it was a big surprise for everybody.
