Star Wars' is a galaxy a long time ago, far, far away. 'Star Wars' is not about our future.

Connecting dots is not that rewarding of an experience.

I've always been fascinated by Disneyland and Disney World, and my favorite part of the park was always Tomorrowland.

There is no suspense in inevitability.

If you do something awesome, you should be proud of yourself.

All great sci-fi is: Be careful what you wish for.

Once you spend more than $100 million on a movie, you have to save the world.

In really, really good science fiction the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.

One person's magical thinking is another person's cynicism.

I make no distinction between writing and storytelling; I've always wanted to tell stories.

As cliched as it sounds, if you have an original voice and an original idea, then no matter what anybody says, you have to find a way to tell that story.

A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Why does anyone have a lot of rules? So they can boss people around, I guess.

It is important that both Japan and the United States continue to invest very heavily in the alliance to build up our defense.

But I don't give up; I forget why not.

Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.

South Africa was something that just kind of hit me.

Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation.

If the basis of trust between the Prime Minister and her Defence Secretary no longer exists, there is no place for me with honour in such a Cabinet.

I have so much love inside me, Jason. So much. And I have never been allowed to shower it on anyone - no one wanted it. Let me stretch the wings of my heart with you.