Every movie I've ever made has just kind of come together.

The writer's genetic inheritance and her or his experiences shape the writer into a unique individual, and it is this uniqueness that is the writer's only stuff for sale.

One should be willing to throw away a dozen ideas to come up with a good one, just as one should throw away a dozen words to come up with the right one.

I hope I'm still alive to see an expedition set off for Mars.

Thinking that everything is going to come together in a perfect way is not necessarily the way it's going to happen.

God giving man life and taking it away is not nearly so bad as God taking away childhood and giving him life.

[T]he one indispensable ingredient of science fiction [is] a belief in a world being changed by man's intellect, a conviction that what was being written could really happen.

I like to plan everything out and know exactly what we're doing. It's always important to me to work with a cast and a crew that not only I respect their talent but I really like them as people.

The people who gave up their humanity to save their planet was always very interesting to me.

In science fiction a fantastic event or development is considered rationally.

I don't really think in terms of competing with myself.

What made marriage so difficult back then was yet again that instigator of so many other sorts of heartbreak: the oversize brain.

The life of the creative man is led directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

Could five hundred men have painted the Sistine Chapel?

I don't think goodness is something that you learn. If you're left adrift in the world to learn goodness from it, you would be in trouble.

I have been talking about that for a long time, but it's very, very important to me [to unify the country.]

Once he's on the run, Messi is unstoppable.

Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.

By using power, money, fraud, the enemy is interested in gaining control over the world of Islam.

Providing a real way to deal with the urgent needs of environmental issues that is accessible to everyone is the new fight for the democratization of design.

And we've all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it.