I hope I am pigeonholed with comedy. I'm really not interested in writing the darker stuff, the emotional stuff.

If we can't write diversity into sci-fi, then what's the point? You don't create new worlds to give them all the same limits of the old ones.

Movies are always made by committees, and the writer is not at the head of the committee. Thus, mush.

I think we should all start worrying about being downloaded and put in robots.

I watch a lot of TV, but I find that recently it's largely oddball stuff. Scripted stuff sometimes feels like homework, like I'm scoping out the competition or something.

It is possible to care too much. It is possible to believe that you will never be as good as anyone else. And it is possible to let these things take over.

Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence. Think about it. People aren't out to get you, they're just stupid.

Forgive my rudeness. I cannot abide useless people.

Luck is opportunity plus preparation plus luck.

Melissa [ Rosenberg] really has mastered coming from character. Everything radiates from the characters in this work. You don't feel like anything's imposed.

Mercy is the mark of a great man! (stabs defeated opponent) I guess I'm just a good man. (stabs opponent again) Well ... I'm alright.

I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice.

Girly’ products can spur Japan’s growth in this century every bit as much as, if not more than, the ‘manly’ technologies.

Struggle is a prerequisite to surrender.

There is a proper balance between not asking enough of oneself and asking or expecting too much.

We batter this planet as if we had someplace else to go.

Feminists have not tried to "destroy the family". We just thought the family was such a good idea that men might want to get involved in it too.

I don't have any formula for ousting a dictator or building democracy. All I can suggest is to forget about yourself and just think of your people. It's always the people who make things happen.

Directing is all about storytelling. It's not about equipment, or anything else.

my friends plunged into a borderless sea of reminiscences and personal news.

I rather like the smell of absurdity in the morning.