Living in Cuba made me unafraid of whatever could happen to me.

A whole film is just about arriving at a moment where you hopefully transfer some feeling to the audience.

I believe in what science fiction can do, which is it can set up simple rules that it has to follow to try to illuminate something about the present that is somewhat invisible to us.

One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.

When I'm sitting writing, I know that something works if I've made myself cry, or laugh, or have a visceral emotion.

Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy.

I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.

Writing so that I can act became a way of having not more control over my future but not having to wait for permission. You can choose yourself. Hmm, who should play this part? I nominate me!

Life and death and birth is this fantastic mystery that we cannot fully grasp.

I think what's so attractive about acting is that you get to live several lifetimes in one.

People go to the cinema to be moved; they wanna laugh, they wanna cry, they wanna feel something deeply, especially if they're not feeling deeply in their own lives.

This dewdrop world Is but a dewdrop worldAnd yet —

A lion never loses sleep over a sheep's sentiments.

I'd like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me.

Too many doubts grow in the cracks of silence and separation.

Everyone is built for running.

We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.

An apple is an excellent thing -- until you have tried a peach.

I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.

If we get it wrong about Jesus, it doesn’t matter what else we get right.

Look and you wlll see, that which was can never be. When they seek a boy your age, Run, you flippin moron, run!