In science fiction a fantastic event or development is considered rationally.

The writer's genetic inheritance and her or his experiences shape the writer into a unique individual, and it is this uniqueness that is the writer's only stuff for sale.

One should be willing to throw away a dozen ideas to come up with a good one, just as one should throw away a dozen words to come up with the right one.

I hope I'm still alive to see an expedition set off for Mars.

Thinking that everything is going to come together in a perfect way is not necessarily the way it's going to happen.

God giving man life and taking it away is not nearly so bad as God taking away childhood and giving him life.

[T]he one indispensable ingredient of science fiction [is] a belief in a world being changed by man's intellect, a conviction that what was being written could really happen.

I like to plan everything out and know exactly what we're doing. It's always important to me to work with a cast and a crew that not only I respect their talent but I really like them as people.

The people who gave up their humanity to save their planet was always very interesting to me.

I don't really think in terms of competing with myself.

We live in a world where everybody's supposed to be cool and act tough and put up fronts, and everybody is so cynical.

Online life is about premeditation.

Trouble is a part of your life and if you don't share it you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.

I like to write about the solitary things people do. Humans seem to function best when they're alone.

The fast fish, not the big fish, eats the small fish.

The Italians seem to have a better attitude with kids and the food is great!

There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.

I knew that I could be more creative onstage, to state my own case and deliver my own interpretation of the role much more aggressively than in the recording studio.

The feminist movement as at present instituted is Inadequate.

If there is a good and wise God, then there also exists a progress of humanity toward perfection.

Blockbusters run the mainstream industry. We may never again have a decade like the 1970s, when directors were able to find such freedom.