I grew up as a little 4- and 5-year-old kid, watching Phil Tippett and my dad make monsters in our garage. That's what I did, as a child.

Completing a piece of art and using all of the elements of making a film, was satisfying, for sure.

It's hard to say what iconically will hit, resonate and stay with people.

I would be perfectly happy doing an indie film that had some really cool creative ideas.

Without a spiritual wakefulness to divine purposes and connections in all things, we will not know things for what they truly are.

There is hope for the hopeless.

Let's begin by taking a smallish nap or two.

Of all the works of civilization that interfere with the natural water distribution system, irrigation has been by far the most pervasive and powerful.

Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

The person who is hardest to forgive is the one who can teach you the greatest lessons.

Never forget that you only have one opportunity to make a first impression - with investors, with customers, with PR, and with marketing.

I enjoy using coconut oil - not only for my skin and hair, but I'll digest it.

For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it.

Each generation of Americans must define what it means to be an American.