Humor is unavoidable. It might not feel funny in the moment, but more often than not there's a light at the end of the tunnel.

One of the great things about being a director as a life choice is that it can never be mastered. Every story is its own kind of expedition, with its own set of challenges.

Confidence is preparation in action.

If I had to choose between a great acting job and a good directing job, I'd choose the directing job.

Death can be experienced once, winning maybe more, but losing can happen all the time.

I've just looked for ideas and great characters that I relate to and that I think I can offer something to the audience, and I no longer look at them as experiments or genre exercises at all.

I think the most important thing really was that you could take very personal ideas and present them to an audience in entertaining ways.

There's a very real argument that the minute we are capable of going to a planet, whether it's Mars or another one, and inhabiting it, that we really should.

I'm not a caterer. I just have to stay with my creative convictions. At some point, you have to just get past the special-interest groups and do what you're there to do, which is make a movie.

You're always a little surprised when something really takes off.

The sooner we become a multi-planet species, the safer the species is, and the stronger the guarantee that we're going to continue to evolve.

I've never felt that anger is a very powerful emotion.

I'll never forget how she told us. She took us all out to brunch, and she was like, 'You guys, I'm keeping this one.'

London is the sporting capital of the world. I say to the Chinese and I say to the world, ping pong is coming home.

If you can talk the talk but cant walk the walk youll look like a fool. That's the risk but with great risk comes great reward.

People in England talk about stupid Hollywood idiots, but the industry attracts some of the cleverest people in the world.

When I am White, I win because I am White. When I am Black, I win because I am Bogolyubov.

When I hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete, I see that the System Idle Process is hogging all the resources and chewing up 95 percent of the processor's cycles. Doing what? Doing nothing?

Even this late it happens: the coming of love, the coming of light.

The best pastimes for a true enjoyer of leisure who has to stay at home . . .: reading by the fireside. . . . Listening to music.

Adolescent stage in the development of the human race from which humanity should free itself.