Suffice it to say, there are some very big ideas in Prometheus and, therefore, it covers a very vast expanse of time.

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.

It troubles him to consider the powerful currents and fine-tuning that alter fate, the close and distant influences, the accidents of character and circumstance.

I can't be casual about losing. I always think I have a chance to win until winning is absolutely impossible.

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

When a black person has no electricity, no water, they call it the ghetto. When white people have no electricity and no water, they call it camping.

Luxuries are easy to take up but very difficult to give up

A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other.

The essence of leisure is not to assure that we may function smoothly but rather to assure that we, embedded in our social function, are enabled to remain fully human.

You can never visit the same place twice. Each time, it's a different story. By the very act of coming back, you wipe out what came before.

I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous, or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular, but because it never forgot what it could do.

Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.