I started wondering if God really existed. The world seemed too empty and lonely for there to be a God in it. But I figured he must exist because I kept blaming everything on him.

It wasn’t that everything was going my way, but I began to believe that the way it was going was perfect. I accepted that where I was in life, was exactly where I was supposed to be.

The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed.

You don't need to try to be God, you are! But if you try to be God it means you don't know you are.

I do like sci-fi. When I was a kid, I was always sort of locked into sci-fi stories. So, sci-fi has always had a special place in my heart.

I turned down the first script offered to me, and the second. I lay on my back one day under an umbrella, in the garden, reading the third, and wondered why I had turned down the first.

I started doing pot jokes, and I noticed that audiences invariably love pot jokes. Even people who don't smoke pot think it's a funny subject.

When you can feel that you already have what you want, then you will attract what you want. In fact, you already have it. Just feel it now and feel it real.

What a writer brings to any story is an attitude

True power comes when others offer it to you and you merely accept it as a gift, not as the spoils of some personal war.

I had worked in fiction a lot before I started making documentaries, but when I was around 32 or 33-years-old I suddenly got so fed up with the world of fiction, which is so money-centered.

Over no nation does the press hold a more absolute control than over the people of America, for the universal education of the poorest classes makes every individual a reader.