I'm really into rocks. I have a really serious rock collection. Rocks and feathers and shells and strange found things in nature. I have a lot of those kinds of collections.

A whole film is just about arriving at a moment where you hopefully transfer some feeling to the audience.

I believe in what science fiction can do, which is it can set up simple rules that it has to follow to try to illuminate something about the present that is somewhat invisible to us.

One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.

When I'm sitting writing, I know that something works if I've made myself cry, or laugh, or have a visceral emotion.

Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy.

I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.

Writing so that I can act became a way of having not more control over my future but not having to wait for permission. You can choose yourself. Hmm, who should play this part? I nominate me!

Life and death and birth is this fantastic mystery that we cannot fully grasp.

I think what's so attractive about acting is that you get to live several lifetimes in one.

People go to the cinema to be moved; they wanna laugh, they wanna cry, they wanna feel something deeply, especially if they're not feeling deeply in their own lives.

God has made the provision for every man on earth to be equally endowed with the currency time

Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.

Nobody introduces us to inspiration…it glows in our thoughts, it lives in our heart, It is all around us in the form of sunshine, in the clouds. It changes our reality - choice lies with us.

Shane felt a jolt of heat, a desire that threatened to overwhelm rational thought. And perhaps for the moment that was all right.

I'm never quite cool, if you know what I mean. I'm basically the worst, best superhero.

What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?

Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.

A great love is an absolute isolation and an absolute absorption.

Love is the only path to anything worth doing, creating or pursuing.

I'm 40 years old. What I have seen my whole life is widening income inequality.