Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.

I have some favorites. I love Chaplin; I mean I really love Chaplin. I just think there’s a grace and an elegance that’s almost never been matched.

You have to listen to the movie while you’re making it. I think that’s important.

I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don’t think it’s an instrument to create a heightened reality.

Why is every great children’s story about a journey? Maybe that’s because we are always on one.

There are not many people on Team Gary. Actually, it’s two people. My kids.

Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the ’50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future.

In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn’t want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence.

All of a sudden, there's a new risk to being long whereas before it was a one-way bet. The IEA release has capped the market.

You can't tell your kids to read if you're just watching television. They have to see you read. And in that respect, I think it's important to walk the walk. It's a wonderful shared time.