The biggest misconception usually is to assume that I am a scientist and that I work for scientists. I work for the public to access the surreal and fantastical in science.

Critical design aims to really push the boundaries of design and to reconsider the element of fiction.

I believe that, by taking an extreme approach, you really get the public to actively engage with a cause or a research ,and that is what motivates me with space exploration.

I got frustrated with films like "Armageddon" and "Deep Impact," where the only answer to deal with a Near-Earth Object is basically Bruce Willis with a big drill.

I make films but I am trained as a designer. I come from this series of designers called critical designers, speculative designers.

Leaders always choose the harder right rather than the easier wrong.

Just calm down and think, sir. Think. Where is your wife?

I know the well of my maternal incompetence is deep but I am determined to siphon up a calm and breathing hope for him.

I feel like 'Amelie' is very much an extension of me. She's a contemporary woman who sees the world through her imagination.

What is most needed for learning is a humble mind.

No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.

We're going to keep building the party until we're hunting Democrats with dogs.

Poetry, a speaking picture to teach and delight.

God's love is unbounded. It has no limits.

The leader of a company needs to have a decision tree in his head - if this happens, we go this way, but if it winds up like that, then we go this other way.