The key relationship for writers in film is producers, because those are the first two people involved and the ones who work on it intensely in a private way without the big machinery of film.

Though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil, for I am the evilest motherfucker in the valley

Vietnam, me love you long time. All day, all night, me love you long time.

Tourists went on holidays while travellers did something else. They travelled.

I've never been to Comic-Con, but I'm certainly aware from this side of the Atlantic that it's a very important part of film marketing now, even when the films are not directly linked to a comic.

I do all this alone, everything I achieve, I achieve alone, because it's my head I'm locked into, and I share this space with nobody but myself.

Waking was the most reliable part of a dream, as built into dreams as death is to life. You dream, you wake: you live, you die.

The first I heard of the beach was in Bangkok, on the Ko Sanh Road.

I did keep a travel diary once and it was a big mistake. All I remember of that trip is what I bothered to write down.

I've written original material before, where I've come up with the idea and the characters myself, and that's definitely very different to working with someone else's characters and stories.

I knew my affection for the Philippines was equally as telling: a democracy on paper, apparently well ordered, regularly subverted by irrational chaos. A place where I'd felt instantly at home.

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

In case you were wondering, my spirit animal is a duck billed platypus.

As our closest relatives, they (chimpanzees) tell us special things about what it means to be a primate and, ultimately, what it means to be a human at the DNA level.

I don't think anyone likes to see a picture of themselves in a tabloid, besides a couple people who I'm not going to mention. I'm definitely not one of those people.

To change societies you need to organize with others who share your views.

I'm a nut case, but that is what I believe.

Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.

Voice your position in God and you will be surrounded by all the resources of God in the time of trial.