Anything that stimulates the public's imagination about the nobility and the importance of space exploration is something that I'm very excited to be a part of.

One of the great things about being a director as a life choice is that it can never be mastered. Every story is its own kind of expedition, with its own set of challenges.

Confidence is preparation in action.

If I had to choose between a great acting job and a good directing job, I'd choose the directing job.

Humor is unavoidable. It might not feel funny in the moment, but more often than not there's a light at the end of the tunnel.

Death can be experienced once, winning maybe more, but losing can happen all the time.

I've just looked for ideas and great characters that I relate to and that I think I can offer something to the audience, and I no longer look at them as experiments or genre exercises at all.

I think the most important thing really was that you could take very personal ideas and present them to an audience in entertaining ways.

There's a very real argument that the minute we are capable of going to a planet, whether it's Mars or another one, and inhabiting it, that we really should.

I'm not a caterer. I just have to stay with my creative convictions. At some point, you have to just get past the special-interest groups and do what you're there to do, which is make a movie.

You're always a little surprised when something really takes off.

Quality solves the trade-off between margins and sales.

Why is it beautiful that humanity keeps coming back? So does herpes.

In every dream journey, there comes a moment when you have to quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death.

The mind is limitless, in its creations.

Earlier today former Vermont Governor Howard Dean became the new head of the Democratic National Committee -- no word on who will be the neck.

When you speak to a man, look on his eyes; when he speaks to you, look on his mouth.

A warrior takes his lot, whatever it may be, and accepts it in ultimate humbleness. He accepts in humbleness what he is, not as a grounds for regret but as a living challenge.

You marry a non-graduate, then you are going to worry if your son or daughter is going to make it to the university.

Drama sells more than the truth.

I've been waiting a long to to meet you