I try to keep up, and the scientific perspective is always part of my creative approach.

When a new writer comes onto a project, he'll make wholesale changes just to mark the territory or for greater credit.

I never stopped loving the deeper sciences, and I read as deeply into lay science as I can.

I'd wanted to be a writer since I was knee-high. Once I knew that books were written by people and didn't just happen, it was obviously that I would write them, too.

Directing offers you the hope that your vision will reach the screen, unmolested and intact. Therefore, it's tantalizing to all writers.

It is true that, with TV, a writer gets a great deal more respect.

For a successful writer, the secret is to have many irons in the fire. Write the next thing.

You don't control whether your movies get made. You can't. All you can control is whether your draft is great. So, you write your great draft, as best as you can, and then move on to the next thing.

Making the right choices on the worlds we explore is going to be our biggest challenge.

I mean that much more than wiser beings from beyond the stars bringing us enlightenment or death or salvation, we are likely to find ourselves the wisest beings on the scene.

The world may hold startling developments and shocking unknowns.

It's an amazing experience to work with Hrithik. He is one of the finest actors, and there is a reason for it. He is extremely hardworking and fully dedicated.

Making bombs will only destroy us. It doesn't matter whether we use them or not. They will destroy us either way.

A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.

A woman beautiful facially can negate all her beauty by no longer being feminine.

My dad's dying wish was to have his family around him. I can't help thinking he would have been better off with more oxygen.

The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.

It has taken awhile, but I certainly do know it now ­­– the most wonderful gift I had, the gift I finally learned to cherish above all else, was the gift of all those perfectly ordinary days.

We are big fans of fear, and in investing it is clearly better to be scared than sorry.

That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind , a dog's fidelity!

I believe in me more than anything in this world.