The dead are too much with us.

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.

Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.

Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.

The death of an illusion tends to disconcert.

When inspiration is silent reason tires quickly.

That's life: trust and you're betrayed; don't trust and you betray yourself.

There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.

If a building is falling on you, you don't concern yourself with the horn of an approaching car. You deal with the most immediate peril first. That's survival.

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.

Nothing we did in those days has caused a change." "Because of what we did, things remained as they were, rather than getting worse," I told him.

People who do not have a price tag attached to them are priceless.

You go up for hundreds, thousands of roles, and you get told no, no, no, so many times.

Make sure you want it enough.

A cautious creative is an oxymoron.

Our memories, they can be inviting. But some are altogether, mighty frightening.

You kind of worry for the characters in a way that you don't normally in sci-fi, because sci-fi tends to be about the ideas, and this is about people.

The greatest danger for those working in the cinema is the extraordinary possibility it offers for lying.

Sickness may be the solemn occasion of God's intervention in a person's life.

You may have taken the planet, but you will lose this game!

I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it; it's more like jazz. There is more improvisation.