I think that 'Elysium' the movie is unrealistic, with the space station and everything. I think 'Elysium' the metaphor is completely realistic: it's exactly where we're going.

Generally speaking, it's a very hard thing to wrap your head around that a drone operator in Nevada can be releasing munitions in the Middle East.

I actually think Johannesburg represents the future. My version of what I think the world is going to become looks like Johannesburg.

If something is as smart as you, do you treat it differently if it isn't a human?

I think the world of 'District 9' has a lot of race and oppression-based ideas that I would still like to explore in that world.

When I was in my early 20s, I was quite into Japanese animation. It's like the same thing that I end up always saying which is, imagery based stuff is the thing that really gets me.

If you don't have something that glues the audience to the screen, you're in trouble.

A lot of America is kind of done. People have been making films about it for 100 years. Everything to me feels used up. But Jo-Burg feels unbelievably inspirational to me.

I never think of things rationally or intellectually. I swear, every single decision I make is just instinct and my instincts tend to be accurate.

I do think that it's always okay to show too little. People will still be interested. So why show too much?

There's a lot of evidence in evolutionary sciences that show that altruism and acting in ways that are empathetic to others are actually beneficial on an evolutionary basis.

We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have lost their way.

It made me realize that Beatrice had changed

I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life.

Weaponization of a candidate's words against him or her is something we're seeing a lot. The term Obamacare was used against Obama in a pejorative way, but Obama again reclaimed it.

It's much different today than it was during the Cold War. The CIA is not the subject of many books anymore. But that might change, because of international terrorism and Red China.

I must confess that I am interested in leisure in the same way that a poor man is interested in money.

He lives well who lives retired, and keeps His wants within the limits of his means.

We are sculptors finding ourselves in the evolution of choosing, not in the results of choice.

Not beauty, no, but virtue rais'd my fires, whose sacred flame did cherish chaste desires.