I played around with vegetarianism back in the '70s. One thing, my physiology just got to have animal protein. I get hypoglycemic, I get all light-headed unless I eat animal protein.

There needs to be a lot more emphasis on what a child CAN do, instead of what he cannot do.

What would happen if the autism gene was eliminated from the gene pool? You would have a bunch of people standing around in a cave, chatting and socializing and not getting anything done.

I am different, not less

The world needs different kinds of minds to work together.

The thing about being autistic is that you gradually get less and less autistic, because you keep learning, you keep learning how to behave. It's like being in a play; I'm always in a play.

If you have a 2 or 3 year old who is not talking, you must start an early intervention program. The worst thing you can do with an autistic 3 year old is to do nothing.

Nature is cruel but we don't have to be

I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.

I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me.

People talk about curing autism. But if you got rid of all those traits, who's going to make the next computer?

So I didn't have time to craft artful lies and evasions even if I'd wanted to.

The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed.

Art is man determined to die sane.

The strength of your memory dictates the size of your reality

Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue? What's happened to the world?

Tall men come down to my height when I hit 'em in the body.

Demoralization of the target audience is yet another step in successful mind control.

Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation.

I wouldn't say that I'm overly religious, but I have a pretty good relationship with my spiritual being.

When you get back into the editing suite in the cold light of day, the written stuff is better.