The sooner we become a multi-planet species, the safer the species is, and the stronger the guarantee that we're going to continue to evolve.

One of the great things about being a director as a life choice is that it can never be mastered. Every story is its own kind of expedition, with its own set of challenges.

Confidence is preparation in action.

If I had to choose between a great acting job and a good directing job, I'd choose the directing job.

Humor is unavoidable. It might not feel funny in the moment, but more often than not there's a light at the end of the tunnel.

Death can be experienced once, winning maybe more, but losing can happen all the time.

I've just looked for ideas and great characters that I relate to and that I think I can offer something to the audience, and I no longer look at them as experiments or genre exercises at all.

I think the most important thing really was that you could take very personal ideas and present them to an audience in entertaining ways.

There's a very real argument that the minute we are capable of going to a planet, whether it's Mars or another one, and inhabiting it, that we really should.

I'm not a caterer. I just have to stay with my creative convictions. At some point, you have to just get past the special-interest groups and do what you're there to do, which is make a movie.

You're always a little surprised when something really takes off.

I do think that there is pressure in various constituencies to reject the president.

We're all eaters. That's our bond. Let's be real.

If you focus on success, you’ll have stress. But if you pursue excellence, success will be guaranteed.

Will power is human electricity. You have enough of this electricity generated in you to achieve the greatest things in life if you will keep the current on.

It is pardonable to be defeated, but never to be surprised.

A WISE MAN never enjoys himself so much, or a FOOL so little, as when he is alone.

My fans are the best. I mean if there was a war, I think they'd definitely win just because they'd kill them with kindness.

What I'm trying to do is deliver results, not promises; results, not vision; results, not concepts. The world is cynical about IBM's promises.

The only question that matters with regard to a religion and its mythology is “What do these stories mean?

From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.