It's always fun to do action and explosion, but I really enjoyed directing the emotion of the actors.

I made a few movies in Holland for a lot of TV series. I came to Los Angeles and for the last 10 years, I made a lot of feature films - all kinds of low budget action movies for the studios.

We are one species out of a billion

​Pass on bravery and wisdom to the future generations, not some ragged traditions and baseless cowardice.

Fortunately the family is a human institution: humans made it and humans can change it.

I do love live performing, but I'm not a stand-up naturally, and I don't like the lifestyle of working just in the evenings at clubs.

The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.

We are making politics a spectator sport in which our only duty is to vote somebody into office and then retire to the grandstands.

I have done most of my talking by post of late years--as people shut up in dungeons take up with scrawling mottoes on the walls.

Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made.

Let the end and the means be joined into one.

Ilike ideas writers have that I might not have written. Writers are there for a reason... to write for me.