I feel its important to talk about the complex issues affecting us.

One of the biggest blessings in my life is that I have a very wonderful family, a lovely wife and two lovely daughters.

It's not some big event that creates the drama, it's the little things of everyday life that bring about that drama.

The bigger confrontation is the one an individual has with itself.

I see screenwriting as a bit like a math equation which I have to solve.

When I decide to write a story, I don't think too much about what I want it to be, I just let things come naturally and this is how it turns out. It's just how my subconscious works.

I like storytelling, and for storytelling you need a drama. And for there to be drama, you need twists, and by twists I mean the ability to constantly change the trajectory of the story.

I would have had the same narrative, regardless of the atmosphere and the restrictions.

In my opinion when you speak about relationships between people, you are actually talking about everything in their world because everything is contained in that relationship.

One must never tell a child what it is they should display acting.

Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously.

What can you do when everyone around you is strong and clever?

In this business actors who have Botox or surgery make you very aware of age. It's awful.

It's so much of what art and creativity are, being able to confront your own demons. If you can do that, you can get through just about everything.

Dreams Matter because they push you

A knick-knack is a thing that sits on top of a whatnot.

As a magician, you must think about chaos and order. Those are the two forces that control the universe.

Climate change policies cannot be the frosting on the cake of development; they must be baked into the recipe of growth and social development.

I always say we got 700 pounds of pork up front. They're going to hold guys down and allow us linebackers to make a lot of plays. Even in practice. I'm loving it, man.

Each climber loses one finger or toe once in a while. This is a small but important reason for Polish climbers success. Western climbers haven't lost as many fingers or toes.

[As they say in the old legends]Before a man goes to the devil himself, he sends plenty of other souls thither.