As cliched as it sounds, if you have an original voice and an original idea, then no matter what anybody says, you have to find a way to tell that story.

Connecting dots is not that rewarding of an experience.

I've always been fascinated by Disneyland and Disney World, and my favorite part of the park was always Tomorrowland.

There is no suspense in inevitability.

If you do something awesome, you should be proud of yourself.

All great sci-fi is: Be careful what you wish for.

Once you spend more than $100 million on a movie, you have to save the world.

In really, really good science fiction the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.

One person's magical thinking is another person's cynicism.

I make no distinction between writing and storytelling; I've always wanted to tell stories.

I'm not glass-half-full, glass-half-empty; I'm like, "There's a glass?"

Earlier 18th-century literary language was not supple enough to connect the life of the imagination to that of the street.

I was being very bad because I didn't know how to express myself. Music gave me an outlet to express myself and channel that anger.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.

I don't feel I'm making a conscious effort to go more commercial.

The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger.

I think I've just gotten better at learning how to write a song.

I have a great admiration for pacifism, but I'm not a pacifist, mainly because I would defend myself if I were attacked.

We can often do more by doing less. God is not particularly interested in quantity production. That is an American standard, not a Bible standard.

For by his face straight shall you know his heart.