The litmus test for whether I want to take on a role or not is usually fear. If Im afraid of it, then I want to do it.

A whole film is just about arriving at a moment where you hopefully transfer some feeling to the audience.

I believe in what science fiction can do, which is it can set up simple rules that it has to follow to try to illuminate something about the present that is somewhat invisible to us.

One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.

When I'm sitting writing, I know that something works if I've made myself cry, or laugh, or have a visceral emotion.

Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy.

I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.

Writing so that I can act became a way of having not more control over my future but not having to wait for permission. You can choose yourself. Hmm, who should play this part? I nominate me!

Life and death and birth is this fantastic mystery that we cannot fully grasp.

I think what's so attractive about acting is that you get to live several lifetimes in one.

People go to the cinema to be moved; they wanna laugh, they wanna cry, they wanna feel something deeply, especially if they're not feeling deeply in their own lives.

For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn.

the Bible is only as good and decent as the person reading it.

It is with deep regret that the determination to assemble Parliament has been so long delayed.

God is not a God of the edges, with a vested interest in beginnings. God is the God of the whole show.

I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.

When you've got a Chautauqua in your head, it's extremely hard not to inflict it on innocent people.

Just because two of the people in this barn have decided to spend their lives together doesn't mean the rest of us are obligated to instantly find our soul mates. It's okay if we just dance.

You're barely even wearing a shirt! What are you going to do if a mugger jumps out at you, flash them?

A lot of things you see as a child remain with you you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience.

I would encourage them never to forget that they were not always vegans. The self-righteousness of the recently converted hurts, it does not help, other animals.