In the case of judges, I wouldn't be shocked to find out the number on television exceeds the number in real life — what is it about those black robes that makes us think ovaries?

If we can't write diversity into sci-fi, then what's the point? You don't create new worlds to give them all the same limits of the old ones.

Movies are always made by committees, and the writer is not at the head of the committee. Thus, mush.

I think we should all start worrying about being downloaded and put in robots.

I watch a lot of TV, but I find that recently it's largely oddball stuff. Scripted stuff sometimes feels like homework, like I'm scoping out the competition or something.

It is possible to care too much. It is possible to believe that you will never be as good as anyone else. And it is possible to let these things take over.

Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence. Think about it. People aren't out to get you, they're just stupid.

Forgive my rudeness. I cannot abide useless people.

Luck is opportunity plus preparation plus luck.

Melissa [ Rosenberg] really has mastered coming from character. Everything radiates from the characters in this work. You don't feel like anything's imposed.

I hope I am pigeonholed with comedy. I'm really not interested in writing the darker stuff, the emotional stuff.

Christmas is a state of mind.

Edward, maybe you're seeking the wrong answer? You are asking the wrong question. It's not what you believe, but how you choose to believe. Everyone believes something. Even nothing is something.

Franz Kafka is an idea person. His books begin and end in ideas. Ideas have always been important to me in my writing. To the point that I have to be careful that they don't take over.

You know, it's not the world I would have wanted, for sure.

I'm not a beautiful person and I never have been.

You feel better about yourself when you do something with yourself. You also feel more confident.

India has created a special momentum in world history as a country to be searched for knowledge.

Building air castles is a harmless business as long as you don't attempt to live in them.

Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body.

The ultimate end of any ideology is totalitarianism.