The only thing that's important is that every day I'm waking and doing something that I really love to do.

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.

Where the bright seraphim in burning rowTheir loud uplifted angel trumpets blow.

You are what you write.

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

I think glamour all the time. I wake up in the morning and I'm already thinking glamour.

Heroes aren't allowed to be nervous." "Who made up that rule?" "It's a known fact.

It's hard to play a continuing character like Loomis for nearly 11 years and simply wash your hands of him. It seems a pity.

We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.

My biggest regret is probably that it took me so long to find out what I want to do.

To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty.

I've already developed trust in my teammates -as a player and as a person.