But I feel that I have a responsibility to help the film and I have relations with the studio and with those who put up the money so that I can tell a story that I believe in.

I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling... to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift.

Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.

Stay true to your brand and true to your voice and audiences will respond to that authenticity with enthusiasm and passion.

People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reasons in the same box.

The only thing worse than a loser is someone who won't admit he played badly.

You have to always be ready, always be alive, and always be willing to move in a new direction.

I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman.

Mediocrity is the elephant in the room.

We're all victims of our own hubris at times.

I think you need the failures to get the success. You learn more from that.

I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn't hard when I had a reason to want to know it.

Thou shalt not kill; but needst not strive officiously to keep alive.

I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the end of the 20th century.

People forget that when you’re 16, you’re probably more serious than you’ll ever be again. You think seriously about the big questions.

Faeries and vampires were glittery now? Honestly.

There were thirst and hunger, and you were the fruit. There were grief and the ruins, and you were the miracle.

The best result of mathematics is to be able to do without it.

I have a theory that evolutionary biologists are more vain than particle physicists.

Judy Price Osgood is a longtime friend of Clinton's, and she says she meets people regularly who say they don't like [Hillary] Clinton.

Because we don't see the evil destroyed now and thus experience the suffering that evil inevitably inflicts, we are tempted to doubt God's existence and goodness.