I thought it would be an enormous amount of fun to make a movie that heads out into space, which is something that we had never done before.

If you're good at something, never do it for free.

The secret to all drama, film, TV, or books - the thing that people respond to most, and the thing I find myself as a viewer feeling most interested in, is the idea of change.

We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars. Now we just look down, and worry about our place in the dirt.

We live in a moment in history in which our privacy may not be important.

Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment.

Believing the lie that time will heal all wounds is just a nice way of saying that time deadens us.

We are the only instrument for understanding the universe. We have to ground it in human beings.

Every man is a mob, a chain gang of idiots.

I was struck by - Einstein's a fascinating figure who didn't have any instruments that he used, he didn't use telescopes, he used his mind to try to understand the universe.

Time eventually convinces most of us that forgiveness is a virtue. Conveniently, cowardice and forgiveness look identical at a certain distance.

In the wilderness, be not afraid. Trust God to deliver you.

Good books often answer questions you didn't even know you wanted to ask.

The general rule is that people who enjoy life also enjoy marriage.

Four steps to achievement: plan purposefully prepare prayerfully proceed positively pursue persistently.

The crown of literature is poetry.

Geoffrey [Howe] and I were mates, and he disagreed with [ Margaret Thatcher] position. So, we cooperated surreptitiously.

Find what you love and let it kill you. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.

None of us is a smart as all of us.

We tend to block off many of our senses when we're staring at a screen. Nature time can literally bring us to our senses.

Imagine the wisdom to be passed down from the classical Buddhist texts.