Maybe the best definition of what a great partnership or great love is when people make each other grow in a better direction than they would have grown on their own.

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.

that the grace of fable stirs the mind"...and..."that the perusal of excellent books is, as it were, to interview with the noblest men of past ages

Everyone is ready to speak ill of a stranger.

Satan the envious said with a sigh: Christians know more about their hell than I

Stand-up is great because I can get everything off my chest.

Those who believe patriotism to be the last refuge of the scoundrel have underestimated compassion.

And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.

A name is a solemn thing.

I am a session guy and a studio musician and whatever you need me to do I will do it.

There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.

I will resign as party leader to take full responsibility for troubling the public and party supporters.