I don't think anybody wants to see a dour Star Trek movie.

Connecting dots is not that rewarding of an experience.

I've always been fascinated by Disneyland and Disney World, and my favorite part of the park was always Tomorrowland.

There is no suspense in inevitability.

If you do something awesome, you should be proud of yourself.

All great sci-fi is: Be careful what you wish for.

Once you spend more than $100 million on a movie, you have to save the world.

In really, really good science fiction the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.

One person's magical thinking is another person's cynicism.

I make no distinction between writing and storytelling; I've always wanted to tell stories.

As cliched as it sounds, if you have an original voice and an original idea, then no matter what anybody says, you have to find a way to tell that story.

I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby.

... Will ye be there for him in his time of need, or do you prefer to take your anger with you to the grave?

Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future I will strain my spiritual eyes so that I will not see clearly what is required of me now!

I am not playing Wimbledon because I am allergic to grass.

Every great teacher who has ever walked the planet has told you that life was meant to be abundant.

City diversity represents accident and chaos.

I don't know how to describe my sense of humor.

Good manners are a combination of intelligence, education, taste and style mixed together so that you don't need any of those things.

Didier Drogba and Samuel Eto'o, two fantastic African footballers. So successful. And very nice characters as well. I got the luck to know them personally. They helped me a lot.

I am interested in what I term gestalts; picture circumstances which bring together disparate images or ideas so as to form new meanings and new configurations.