Making a pretty picture, an image, is a completely different thing from acting to camera.

If we just create and don't think about what might happen, that's when we're going to get into trouble.

If you find something you are passionate about, you've got to try. Even if something doesn't quite work out, disappointment is a temporary thing. Regret lasts forever.

My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic.

Even though I don't necessarily believe in everything that's supernatural, I like being scared and I like things that are suspenseful.

Our whole economy and society is already being changed by the fact that we have increasing unemployment, mass unemployment and that's what we're facing in the future because of increasing automation.

I think we have a tendency to support the underdogs.

I'm quite a rational person. I'm not very superstitious, but I really do enjoy horror as a genre.

I ended up doing a local AmDram musical when I was nine or so. We had to sing and dance and act. It was probably terrible, but I loved it.

In Hong Kong, the directors are the idea men.

The true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.

Don't torment yourself with jealousy. It's a silly illusion that someone's life is better than yours when the truth is that each one of us is on a different path.

It's impossible to write about the Kennedy assassination and its aftermath without taking note of twenty-five years of paranoia which has collected around that event.

When you see people on the street, they're living in their phones. They aren't living where they are - they haven't got the energy of the past. And so it's something that needs to be reestablished.

Since I'm the judge, it's a very stupid thing to irritate me!

For awhile, I thought that was love. -Gaara

Ignorance Protects itself, And protected, Ignorance grows.

Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

Population control is not an issue involving contraceptives for third world women. It is an issue of ecological justice.