I love so many different genres. I love crime films - and unusual coming-of-age pieces.

My mother enjoyed few things more than investing in the underdogs and showing them that they were special and could achieve their dreams.

I think there are many more stories still to be told about women.

I don't have to go into outer space to write about an astronaut.

Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape.

If you do the math, films featuring women are a good investment.

It's always healthy to be taken down a notch, even though it's humbling.

My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.

The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there.

There are few films where you have women really driving the plot.

I'm interested in how innocence fares when it collides with hard reality.

If an ontology predicts almost nothing it ends up explaining almost nothing, and there's no reason to believe it.

It’s a violent galaxy filled with cutthroat pirates, cyber-mercenaries and star messiahs. If peace comes, it will have to steal in like a thief.

You have a bigger view, of something bigger than you, and you have to view that and take that in mind. At times you feel like despair rises up over hope, then other times you feel hopeful again.

The too perfect security of the Upper-worlders had led them to a slow movement of degeneration, a general dwindling in size, strength, and intelligence.

Pleasure was the color of the time.

I don't lie," I lied.

The day is not far distant when humanity will realize that biologically it is faced with a choice between suicide and adoration.

Appraise war in terms of the fundamental factors. The first of these factors is moral influence.

Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.

The Olympic Games is holy. Athletes from around the world, including myself, of course, dream to participate.