I always feel like the editing room is like coming into the kitchen. What kind of a meal do you make from there? It can be anything.

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.

Employees can make happiness when they maximize their brainwork voluntarily and enthusiastically. Management should focus on setting up an atmosphere.

I don't think you should ever run from history. You should learn from it and embrace it.

Film-making is a physically hard job.

The wealth is ultimately just a relative thing. As a person with little money and little more needs to rich guys money but really wishes

I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

More than periods where I don't write anything, I have periods where I just write junk and I know I'm writing junk but I can't stop.

That’s the one nice thing about being a dork about men: you can sometimes play it off as restrained and classy.

Training teaches how. Education teaches why.

It's physically very, very, very trying to be onstage as a performer, not unlike an athlete, for thirty years.

I think that that integrity is something that is important to voters.