Fighting a cold, but I'm powering through. As they say, there's nothing better for a cold than doing interviews all day.

I'd love to start some movements. What I'm tired of is irony, and sarcasm, and music/movies/what have you, not having the guts to mean anything.

The only purpose of the visuals, in any film, is to serve the story.

To be animating at the same time, it's the ultimate freedom in filmmaking because you can literally put anything on the screen that you can imagine.

Usually the more money that something takes to make, the less interesting it's forced to become.

Maybe the most annoying questions is: "Where do you see yourself in so many years?" It's a terrifying answer no matter how you think of it.

Most people's personalities and roles are locked by the time they're nine or 10. I think there's something to that.

Tuesday's coming, did you bring your coat?

There's really no reason film and digital can't happily co-exist and benefit from one another. Anyone who tells you otherwise is just trying to sell you something.

No matter what decade science fiction comes from, it's representing the present.

I think one of the reasons I love science fiction so much is that it's - when it's ideally done right, it's a reflection on ourselves.

Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.

Probably every subject is interesting if an avenue into it can be found that has humanity and that an ordinary person can follow.

best solutions will not fall intoour lap if we fail to grab the best available solutions andimprove upon them continuously.

In this unbelievable universe in which we live there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines reaching into infinity meet somewhere yonder.

Never ask of money spent Where the spender thinks it went. Nobody was ever meant To remember or invent What he did with every cent.

Write what's up there." Sister Ignatius pointed at her temple. "As a great man once said, this is a secret garden. We've all got one of those." "Jesus?" "No, Bruce Springsteen.

Self-righteousness is a manifestation of self-contempt.

The public thinks that homelessness is about not having any accommodation to go to.

It's really easy to create a $1 billion company - you just have to solve a $10 billion problem.

We don't always need to be sitting at the foot of the teacher, but from time to time we need someone who can overview us and give us direction.