If we had one person who could perfectly read minds we could solve a lot of problems in the world in a very short period of time.

My superpower would be telepathy. And I would by necessity need to use it with discretion, not all the time.

There's a whole, that is a whole subgenre within martial arts cinema. The supernatural martial arts movie. Particularly within Asian cinema.

I root for all movies, but I especially root for good comic book movies. It's the best, most interesting genre going right now.

I do think there are always ways to create what seem like insurmountable powers, but then suddenly you find their limitations and that's the nature of comic book storytelling - always has been.

I think the Harry Potter movies are proof that audiences love that stuff. They love the idea of magical objects and they like learning the rules of those objects and what they do.

At the end of the day, a "jump scare" scares the audience for the moment. Slow burn horror ideas scare people forever.

That's to me what always is compelling about villains. I am much more interested in how they think than in what they even do.

Any conqueror in human history has always been ultimately someone who exists purely for the expansion of their own ego, through amounting more.

I don't want to be a mind rapist!

Martial arts is the kind of action that does tie in well to the supernatural.

There are two kinds of science: The black science and the white science. The science of weapon production is the black one. Working in this category of science is a great betrayal to humanity!

I held out my arms to him and he came to me like a child.

I'm the most stubborn person I know.

The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works. Jacques Barzun, 1959 all ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.

Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.

We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own turf in order to create this common ground.

When I reflect upon my blessings during my very nice lifetime, I am inspired to make sure that I spend the balance of the days of my existence in a productive way.

There are many ways that we hurt ourselves when we don't like who we are.

Old is man when he is born and young, young ever after.

Never eat in a restaurant that has a bowling trophy on the cash register.