I recently had to wait two and a half hours in a doctor's office, just waiting to be seen. I literally was genuinely thinking 'Well, maybe this is a time loop.'

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.

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

Palin is smart, politically skilled, courageous and likable. Her convention and debate performances were impressive.

Every human being on this planet has their pain and their heartache and it's up to all of us to find our way back to the light.

I love the grandiosity of Hollywood movies, and even in independents, I love the canvas you can tell your story on. I love fiction filmmaking, you really feel like you're creating something.

All that God does is for the good.

There has to be this balance of reality for a woman. I don't want to play women who just serve a purpose for the script.

There is a buddhist proverb which I like a lot. It says: "Every body deserves mercy". That means that every body is holy.

He has learned that God uses solitude to teach us how to live with other people.

What is so certain of victory as patience?

I think its easy to enjoy anywhere that you play where you feel like you got a chance to win a lot.

I would like to work in any country in an interesting project. The country is not so important.