The critical reaction to 'Bloom' has been similar to 'Brick.' There are people on board with it and people who are not.

Belgrade has kind of a Dublinesque, dear-dirty charm.

My favorite sci-fi always uses its hook to amplify some bigger theme or idea - some emotional thrust.

Much of directing [a movie] is not directing but just listening and being present in the moment and just keeping your eyes open.

If you make something interesting, inevitably not everybody is going to like it.

You go from these high hopes when you're writing to just a desperate want of not making a complete fool of yourself by the end of it.

All my favorite movies are somebody else's least favorite movie.

You come out of each movie just thinking, "God, if we can fool them into letting us make just one more, we can get it right."

Writing sucks. I think it's terrible. Writing is not fun, and don't trust anyone who claims to enjoy it. Liars!

Writing in a lot of ways feels more like excavation than construction. It feels like you're uncovering this thing bit by bit, discovering what it is, instead of constructing it upwards.

Showing your movie to an audience... it's like your kid doing a piano recital. 'Just let it not fail. Please.

A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke

To deny access to translation and interpreting services oppresses human rights and violates laws.

All things flow nothing abides.

I do not think any SFWA communication should come anywhere NEAR the internet.

Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act.

The next time you're disappointed, don't panic. Don't give up. Just be patient and let God remind you He's still in control.

Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for.

But, my dear, I knew when I was a baby what I wanted to do, and I'll tell you, kiddo, if you don't do what your heart tells you, you'll never be real.

Men are allowed to get older and women are not.

There is such sweet pain in parting that I could hang forever on thine arms, and look away my life into thine eyes.