I think in the long run, it will be better for us if we solve our problems without suffering through some terrible disaster. I like the idea of change without Apocalypse.

Are we not witnessing a strange tableau of survival whenever a bird alights on the head of a crocodile, bringing together the evolutionary offspring of Triassic and Jurassic?

So science alone cannot solve this problem [mass extinction of humans]. It's something that we can only tackle by bringing science together with culture, economics, and even politics.

Everything I had read in the fields of fiction and science led me to a single, dark conclusion. Humans are screwed, and so is our planet.

I believe that it's fine if the university wants to regulate, for example, bandwidth access, but they should treat the students data as private data.

We have converted huge swaths of land and ocean into human habitats where we live and grow food and harvest energy. But there's been a sea change in the past century.

It's only a slight exaggeration to say we haven't progressed much beyond the invention of agriculture when it comes to our view of the natural world.

Women are being welcomed into science fiction, but it's through the back door.

We're seeing a new 'Gilded Age, ' where inheritance is a deciding factor in who becomes the wealthiest.

I am a big proponent of character arcs that show us how people change over time.

If love goes too far, it turns into cruelty.

Cut your goals into tiny units of work and think only about one unit at a time.

There is no reticence nor any limit to a 'Majique.' Only the unwillingness of the mind to open itself to the limitless power of possibilities that exist within the unbelievable.

I'm just trying to approach what I make with as much respect and research as I can, and just make it with a good heart.

I'm a pluralist. I've always argued that as many different films as possible should be made.

I live through risk. Without risk there is no art. You should always be on the edge of a cliff about to fall down and break your neck.

My parents listened to music in our house all the time when we were growing up. It was everything from Dolly Parton to Paul Simon... We packed in everything.

I can be very difficult if people are not professional, or lazy - or the opposite, which is take themselves too seriously.

Martin Luther King has made the Negro in America unnatural.

I was the Jane Roe of Roe vs. Wade, but Jane Roe has been laid to rest.