If you do something awesome, you should be proud of yourself.

Connecting dots is not that rewarding of an experience.

I've always been fascinated by Disneyland and Disney World, and my favorite part of the park was always Tomorrowland.

There is no suspense in inevitability.

All great sci-fi is: Be careful what you wish for.

Once you spend more than $100 million on a movie, you have to save the world.

In really, really good science fiction the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.

One person's magical thinking is another person's cynicism.

I make no distinction between writing and storytelling; I've always wanted to tell stories.

As cliched as it sounds, if you have an original voice and an original idea, then no matter what anybody says, you have to find a way to tell that story.

I'm not glass-half-full, glass-half-empty; I'm like, "There's a glass?"

...he had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go."From Alice Hoffman's "Local Girls", pg.102.

Being a mother brings us face-to-face with ourselves as children, with our mothers as human beings, with our darkest fears of who we really are.

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

I loved working with Meryl Streep twice and I've gotten to work with my friend Liam Neeson on several occasions.

He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's personality, marking vulnerable points.

When I was a kid, all I wanted to do was to be a musician. I lost everything I had, but I just knew that someday I'd be able to tell the world to 'go big or go home.' The world needs to know.

To be 'free' only when things are pleasant is not real freedom.

There were several Battles between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians, in which the former (as they ought) usually won.

Out here, due process is a bullet.

People that keep stiff upper lips find that it's hard to smile.