I feel like great TED Talks are ones that are a little bit subject to interpretation, that do provoke further conversation - and potentially controversy.

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.

Time, the spaces of light and dark, had long since lost orderliness.

I never say the things I really want to. If I did, I'd have no friends.

We are taught we can redeem them, she said to me once. We are taught it as soon as we can read. We can turn the beast into a prince, if only we love him enough.

The American government is premised on the theory that if the individual man is to be free, his ideas, his beliefs, his ideology, his philosophy, must be placed beyond the reach of government.

I was on the verge of quitting… The Acting Center actually saved me as an actor.

I don't come from money or an educated family background or any sort of supportive family life, so all of my choices are made on my own.

The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.

When you prohibit failure, you kill innovation.

Melania Trump did not object or make a speech when her husband retweeted this. "If Hillary Clinton can't satisfy her husband, what makes her think she can satisfy America."

I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security