Our job as creators is to further define any medium.

Look back at your life. It's always the hardest times that made you who you are.

If you're doing what everyone else is doing, you're doing it wrong.

The most dangerous thing you can do in life is play it safe.

As a guiding principle, life shrinks and life expands in direct proportion to your willingness to assume risk.

If the reason why you're doing anything creative is to make a living, then you're doing it wrong

The biggest risk is to take no risk at all

Free time is the enemy of progress

The right time is always right now.

It's the execution that matters, never the idea.

Without a goal, you can’t score.

Part of my soul goes into each quote I write. A book of my quotes can be yours for just $19.99.

The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.

I try to be an open book now as much as possible.

Whenever citizens are seen routinely as enemies of their own government, writers are rountinely seen to be the most dangerous enemies.

Black and white is much closer to the condition of dreaming. It links you to the subconscious and I think that was part of the great appeal of movies originally.. this strange otherness.

I heard Dr. King speaking on the radio, and it seemed like he was saying, "John Robert Lewis, you too can make a contribution. You can get involved!"

We are the envy of Europe and in a few years time we are going to be one of the top countries in the world.

We made our Moriarty very different to [Conan] Doyle's. He's Irish, and he brings all his charm, his twinkle and his humor to it while he's also terrifying.

Dare to fail. If you never fail, you're never taken risks and that's no way to take on this life.