Sometimes we crash and burn. It's better to do it in private.

My biggest worry is I'm running out of time and energy. Thirty years ago I thought 10 years was a really long time.

A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That's how the patent office defines it. That's an invention

An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.

Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile.

Life is so short. Why waste a single day of it doing something that doesn't matter, that doesn't try to do something big?

I do not want to waste any time. And if you are not working on important things, you are wasting time.

It’s not what you do – it’s what you are becoming.

The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle.

I don't work on a project unless I believe that it will dramatically improve life for a bunch of people.

Inspiration comes from the heart. The letter ‘I’ is the heart of F”I”RST… (F Inspiration R S T).

I have no money, but my wallet is overflowing with love.

I think that if you don't like something and it's not easy, you shouldn't be doing it.

How easy it is to tell tales!

A 'Dictatorship of the Proletariat' becomes again another dictator.

Harder he works, the luckier he gets.

Washington and Hollywood spring from the same DNA.

Lighting is not about function. It's much more about the mood and the emotion that the playwright and the director are trying to create. Our job is to support their poetic direction.

If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.

Talking about spirituality is like talking about new love - it always sounds kooky to those who aren't experiencing it.

I think the sexiest thing about a woman is confidence, but confidence in a humble way, not in an arrogant way.