A whole film is just about arriving at a moment where you hopefully transfer some feeling to the audience.

I believe in what science fiction can do, which is it can set up simple rules that it has to follow to try to illuminate something about the present that is somewhat invisible to us.

One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.

When I'm sitting writing, I know that something works if I've made myself cry, or laugh, or have a visceral emotion.

Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy.

I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.

Writing so that I can act became a way of having not more control over my future but not having to wait for permission. You can choose yourself. Hmm, who should play this part? I nominate me!

Life and death and birth is this fantastic mystery that we cannot fully grasp.

I think what's so attractive about acting is that you get to live several lifetimes in one.

People go to the cinema to be moved; they wanna laugh, they wanna cry, they wanna feel something deeply, especially if they're not feeling deeply in their own lives.

I think there is a general unrest or curiosity about what a human future is going to be like, and whether the way we're living is even sustainable.

You always use that word "remember", ' said Milena. 'You say, "remember, team". You never tell us to think.

Every single aspect of what we do at work comes down to people and managing people, selling to people, working with people or making them do what you want them to do.

The whole world is like Whitewall's razors I burst out. It cuts us, and we bleed but there's no purpose to it.

Where I come from revolution is the only creation, and the revolutionary the only artist.

Do you think to yourself, 'Wow, I saw this chicken and she was gorgeous?'

I particularly don't want to play unmotivated behavior.

There is one thing that motivates me. It is the global glory of God. I am first and foremost a missionary. I am an evangelist and a missionary.

I would like to give you more of my heart,but there is nothing more I can give you. I gave you everything and you crushed it into bits.

Everybody generalizes from one example. At least, I do.

To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it "the way it really was"...It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger.