I think the most important thing really was that you could take very personal ideas and present them to an audience in entertaining ways.

One of the great things about being a director as a life choice is that it can never be mastered. Every story is its own kind of expedition, with its own set of challenges.

Confidence is preparation in action.

If I had to choose between a great acting job and a good directing job, I'd choose the directing job.

Humor is unavoidable. It might not feel funny in the moment, but more often than not there's a light at the end of the tunnel.

Death can be experienced once, winning maybe more, but losing can happen all the time.

I've just looked for ideas and great characters that I relate to and that I think I can offer something to the audience, and I no longer look at them as experiments or genre exercises at all.

There's a very real argument that the minute we are capable of going to a planet, whether it's Mars or another one, and inhabiting it, that we really should.

I'm not a caterer. I just have to stay with my creative convictions. At some point, you have to just get past the special-interest groups and do what you're there to do, which is make a movie.

You're always a little surprised when something really takes off.

The sooner we become a multi-planet species, the safer the species is, and the stronger the guarantee that we're going to continue to evolve.

If Jesus is not enough, the person you met wasn´t Jesus.

I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.

I can't recall too much about pitching, but I do remember that I was anxious to get it over with. I just wanted to get that first game over with and go from there.

To look into the mirror is to see the future, in blood and rubies.

Dying is not easy. It's a very hard transition.

It is not in the United Nations that the Millennium Development Goals will be achieved. They have to be achieved in each of its Member States, by the joint efforts of their governments and people.

The fun thing about scent is that it's unique to everyone; pheromones take on a new scent.

Can't reinvent the wheel. But you can put your own spin on it.

If I didn't have kids, I would be at the theater or the ballet every single night of my life.

Be careful what you wish for, you may receive it.