And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history.

When a woman teams up with a snake a moral storm threatens somewhere.

History existed to be retold, with more panache but not necessarily greater accuracy.

Graft at your craft!

Peace doesn't require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there.

When we as a society lose the ability to comment on what we see and to have an opinion on what we are exposed to, then we have all lost what makes us unique on this planet.

Picasso was a delightful, kindly, friendly, simple little man. When I met him he was extremely excited and overjoyed that his mother-in-law had just died, and he was looking forward to the funeral.

The ability to dream is all I have to give. That is my responsibility; that is my burden. And even I grow tired.

Any opinion writer worth his salt would have rejected the quaint notion that certain eternally aggrieved identity groups have exclusive linguistic rights to words in the English language.

There is only one way to solve the alleged crisis of the erosion of 'family values.' And that is to get right down to the root cause of the problem.

You have to take chances - working in film is a mixture of luck, talent, and ability to take the risk. You have to be optimistic. You can't be a pessimistic person.

The way people love sci-fi is how I love cartoons.

The knowledge that every day there is something more to learn, something higher to reach for, something new to make for others, makes each day infinitely precious