[B]eing very smart must also make you just a little bit crazy.

It's important, when you see magic, to recognize it. You don't often get a second chance.

Because when you try too hard to hold on to something, you break it...Sometimes, we need to let go so that other people can have their chance at the magic.

Even the smallest magics can grow.

You never need an invitation to go home.

Knowing that you want to die makes you less scared.

How much dust can a body make? Little specks of death. Measuring life in millimeters.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though limits to our abilities do not exist.

Because wherever I am today, I still owe it to God and I owe it to two men - the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X and of course, two very special women, my mother and my wife.

The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.

I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man.

Increasingly, we're developing all kinds of systems for verifying reality by echoing it.

It's nice to be important but it's even more important to be nice. I grew up in a world where there were a lot of big physical guys...and woman so it's always important to be nice to me.

The director has to win, because you should never force a director to shoot something they don't believe in.

Fashion has always been my defense mechanism.