I think sometimes big budget means explosions! CGI! CGI, the possibilities are so limitless that it begins to be impractical.

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.

To change yourself, let go of what you are and accept what you want to be.

With wisdom comes responsibility. Somewhere along the way, I misplaced both.

There is nothing in the world or the Church — except the church's disobedience — to render the evangelization of the world in this generation an impossibility.

Eminem is the greatest, ever.

I don't miss playing football, but I do miss going into the dressing room every day and having a laugh.

Wind is part of the British Open. It is an examination and it took me a long time to pass the examination. Eighty per cent of the fellows out there have not passed the test.

There is something that can be found in one place. It is a great treasure which may be called the fulfillment of existence. The place where this treasure can be found is the place where one stands

Stop, open up, surrender the beloved blind silence. Stay there until you see you're looking at the light with infinite eyes.

I give the president credit for at least one thing. He's proven that someone can deserve a Nobel prize less than Al Gore.

My major political identity has been as her spouse for the last decade and I like it that way.