Optimism is inevitably the last hope of the defeated

In the opinion of the anarchist, the sum total of human ills is expressed in one word-authority.

If I can't have a revolution, what is there to dance about.

There are sermons in stones, but it depends on how good your aim is.

Friends are the real superheroes. They battle our worst enemies—loneliness, grief, anxiety, depression, fear, and doubt—every time they come around.

Then I resolved that I would go back out there and somehow cope with the situation, despite the fact that I lacked a strategy and was frightened to the pit of my being.

When I'm getting a chance to do my job or make somebody's day, and be on stage where I love, and see all the fans having fun, you can't help but smile.

All round the room my silent servants wait, My friends in every season, bright and dim.

Any believable prediction will be wrong. Any correct prediction will be unbelievable.

Life is the mistress to be wooed.

I have the skills to pay the bills; you know, I can really sing, and write great songs.

Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion.

You need philosophy. It sounds a little pompous but I think when you direct a film, the only way to find a response to the questions you keep asking yourself is to have a philosophy.

To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can escape and have a little idea as well, maybe you have some kind of a cross-breed between the two.