Eventually, in the editing movie you have to look at it as if you hadn't written it. So, you have to be a bit more brutal.

Basically, you can't make a pop culture reference now without someone saying it's Tarantino-esque or post-Tarantino and I'm like where's that all come from? It's ridiculous. But it's not his fault.

I had a bad experience on Ned Kelly, which I'd written the screenplay for. I thought: "Well Jesus, if these are the type of people directing movies I might as well direct one myself!"

I think that if you're a good enough actor you hope that eventually the material will find you.

Small unexpected acts of kindness are the building blocks of greatness. Start your day with a smile and see where it takes you ...

Interviewer: "Didn't [Sagan] want to believe?" Druyan: "He didn't want to believe. He wanted to know.

I'm filled with admiration, delight, and gratitude at discovering James Lasdun's poems in A Jump Start. He has wit, speed, intelligence, a keen eye, precision, and imagination of a high order.

Everybody's the same color with the lights off.

People are threatened by me. Rich white, rich blacks, it doesn't matter.

Good?” Cam said. “Right?” I took another bite and nodded. “Well, I have a whole ton of them at home.” He stretched as he rolled up his napkin. “Just saying.

[N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

We cannot leave the trap until we know we are in it.

Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you male, but about the stories you tell.

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.