In Bollywood, birthday celebrations are usual and very carefree.

Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic.

Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films.

Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.

Look, Hollywood's a mecca, but it's not the final answer. You pick up a camera anyplace in the world, you can make a movie.

You just can't take a crash course to be a tango dancer in a movie.

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday.

I think in terms of chapters. Every time I finish a movie, it's a chapter. When one of my kids graduates from school, that's a chapter.

The only movie that I would ever even consider retrofitting is the first 'Jurassic Park,' which I think would look pretty spectacular in 3D. That's the only one of my films that I would consider doing in 3D.

I believe in 3D for certain kinds of films. I certainly believe in using 3D for all things in animation because animation has such clarity and so much depth of focus. It worked great with 'Avatar' because 70 percent of that film is animated.

Because television doesn't offer the kind of budget that a movie offers, you've got to be a little more careful where you spend the money to put the fiction in science.

Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else.

I turned down 'Harry Potter' and 'Spider-Man,' two movies that I knew would be phenomenally successful, because I had already made movies like that before and they offered no challenge to me. I don't need my ego to be reminded.

You shouldn't dream your film, you should make it!

(on fox news).... it's like watching a Disney movie about the news.

I'm a sort of boy next door. If that boy has a good scriptwriter.

I've made the transition from star to character actor and I'm thoroughly enjoying it.

I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans.

About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.

When I was a young actor I was in a lot of film doing one day work and two days' work, and they've included all those titles, which I don't even remember. I think I've played the lead in about 75 movies.

People say to me, why did you do those films, and I say, for money. It wasn't for diamond rings or kidney shaped swimming pools in Beverly Hills, it was in order to improve the lot of everyone around me.

I've never been part of a movie I would watch over and over again, and I'm really proud of it.