I think there is a general unrest or curiosity about what a human future is going to be like, and whether the way we're living is even sustainable.

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.

Filling up your soul with the depths of your own thoughts, that's just extraordinarily progressive.

Ironically, the only people anyone believes these days are the skeptics.

runaway my phantom bride and take your bouquet of poisonous flowers float away specter and take the rest of my desire

Love is the way. Love is the destination.Love is the happiness. Love is the source of all creation.

Dressing appropriately in one venue may be highly inappropriate in another. Yet every day we see a lack of modesty and taste, regardless of how uncomfortable it makes others feel.

Think What You Do When You Run in Debt: You Give to Another Power over Your Liberty

Societies have progressed much more during times of peace than during wars.

Bulgaria has been deindustrialized by interest groups who extracted state assets like oil states extract the oil in their ground.

D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, Austin... and you. I'll be there soon.

Algebra applies to the clouds.