Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.

Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Those that focus on value creation will thrive.

The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.

Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.

Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.

If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.

You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.

Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people.

Some part of getting a second chance is taking responsibility for the mess you made in the first place.

They forgot everything the minute they were together again.

I see (humor) in the smallest things.

The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.

That is your legend?" Akiva asked, incredulous. Madrigal had told him the story of the sun and Ellai while they flew. "That seraphim are the blood of a rapist sun?

In the end, you really want to make the best film that you can, and in the reality of the filmmaking world, you have things like budgets.

I think there will be 20 years of evolution from linear broadcast to internet television.

I use the words you taught me. If they don't mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.

Maybe it's a little ambitious of me to presume that no matter how big the film is, that I can always go down to the shop to buy a pint of milk.