A slew of cognitive traits predisposes us to faith.

[R]eligious concepts are parasitic upon moral intuitions.

It's good to keep changing your mind. It shows you're thinking. I'll only stop changing my mind when I'm dead. And maybe not even then.

I am not addicted to coffee, it find it's way every morning.

You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind.

Art is the expression of an enormous preference.

My family are doctors and pilots and people involved in indigenous First Nation land rights; not overtly artistic.

There can be little doubt that in many ways the story of bridge building is the story of civilisation. By it we can readily measure an important part of a people's progress.

Most people feel very strongly that Donald Trump is a threat to the nation. He must be defeated.

The background reveals the true being and state of being of the man or thing. If I do not possess the background, I make the man transparent, the thing transparent.

I think the diversity of authors and readers is expanding, which is wonderful, because it means the type of story being told is also expanding.

At Temple University, and I'm sure this was the way in a lot of film classes, comedy was not an option, and not considered a serious form of expression. You had to make a film about an issue.