I give everyone the benefit of the doubt.

I wish everyone was a sci-fi geek because then there would be no violence in the world. There'd be no wars. There'd only be people e-mailing each other.

Cooking is great, love is grand, but soufflés fall and lovers come and go. But you can always depend on a book!

Occasionally if you do something extraordinary, the crew responds with spontaneous applause, but that's very rare.

I'm used to working alone. Frankly with some of the actors I've worked with, I've felt like I was working alone.

I'm more embarrassed about some of the films that I've been in than I am about Playboy. Playboy I'm actually quite proud of.

I'm gonna be a character in a Happy Meal.

You can't look in the face of adoration and be cruel.

It's great when you find somebody you're compatible with, but I'm really into separate bedrooms. You live your life and I live mine.

Sci-fi nerds are respectful, honorable. You can trust them.

I've auctioned off many scripts and will continue to do so for good causes.

Sine doctrina vita est quasi mortis imago" [Without learning, life is but the image of death]

There is no sin that Jesus cannot forgive.

If you don’t believe others can end your suffering, why believe they can end your happiness?

It can be easy to buy into anything. I would lose focus if I went with that attitude of wanting to be famous.

Massive progress has been made in the last five years. More progress has to be made in terms of fiscal union and banking union.

Listen first and never stop listening.

History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

No one likes to be criticized.

Writing ... is a profession that can only be learned by writing.