For some reason, I have a very strange conception of time. I am constantly hovering at some overview, more macro.

A whole film is just about arriving at a moment where you hopefully transfer some feeling to the audience.

I believe in what science fiction can do, which is it can set up simple rules that it has to follow to try to illuminate something about the present that is somewhat invisible to us.

One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.

When I'm sitting writing, I know that something works if I've made myself cry, or laugh, or have a visceral emotion.

Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy.

I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.

Writing so that I can act became a way of having not more control over my future but not having to wait for permission. You can choose yourself. Hmm, who should play this part? I nominate me!

Life and death and birth is this fantastic mystery that we cannot fully grasp.

I think what's so attractive about acting is that you get to live several lifetimes in one.

People go to the cinema to be moved; they wanna laugh, they wanna cry, they wanna feel something deeply, especially if they're not feeling deeply in their own lives.

She wasn't just a B-girl, she was carrying the whole ugly world in her eyes.

You weren't thinking and you weren't paying attention either. People who don't pay attention often get stuck in the Doldrums.

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.

If a teacher misses a target, they change the teacher, If a minister misses a target, they change the target

This is my secret," he said. "I don't mind what happens.

The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head

The past has always been the handmaid of authority.

He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.

Real life is messy, and drama is a shaped version of real life.

A couple years ago it was really hard for me to sing, because there's so much pressure in hip-hop to be a certain way. My biggest thing right now is doing me, because I'm not like other rappers.