I actually think Johannesburg represents the future. My version of what I think the world is going to become looks like Johannesburg.

Generally speaking, it's a very hard thing to wrap your head around that a drone operator in Nevada can be releasing munitions in the Middle East.

If something is as smart as you, do you treat it differently if it isn't a human?

I think that 'Elysium' the movie is unrealistic, with the space station and everything. I think 'Elysium' the metaphor is completely realistic: it's exactly where we're going.

I think the world of 'District 9' has a lot of race and oppression-based ideas that I would still like to explore in that world.

When I was in my early 20s, I was quite into Japanese animation. It's like the same thing that I end up always saying which is, imagery based stuff is the thing that really gets me.

If you don't have something that glues the audience to the screen, you're in trouble.

A lot of America is kind of done. People have been making films about it for 100 years. Everything to me feels used up. But Jo-Burg feels unbelievably inspirational to me.

I never think of things rationally or intellectually. I swear, every single decision I make is just instinct and my instincts tend to be accurate.

I do think that it's always okay to show too little. People will still be interested. So why show too much?

There's a lot of evidence in evolutionary sciences that show that altruism and acting in ways that are empathetic to others are actually beneficial on an evolutionary basis.

Setting boundaries is a way of caring for myself. It doesn't make me mean, selfish, or uncaring because I don't do things your way. I care about me too.

If it makes you laugh, if it makes you cry, if it rips out your heart, that's a good picture.

...what will we someday do, I always wonder, without the pleasures of turning through books and stumbling on things we never meant to find?

All roads that lead to God are good.

War is a calculated and condoned slaughter of human beings.

Temporary anger is no need to make permanent mistakes.

war is not just a victory or loss ... People die.

In the realm of ideas, it is better to let the mind sally forth, even if some precious preconceptions suffer a mauling.

I've given up reading the papers. Since the world's so obviously bent on killing itself, I decided months ago to sit back and let it.

Does Fang have an off switch? Talon asked Vane.