The thing about filming is that it can be the most banal experience because it's slow and there's a lot of waiting around.

A stable climate is the most fundamental resource of all. No one has yet built a civilisation in an unstable climate

The security of people and nations rests on four pillars - food, energy, water and climate. They are all closely related, and all under increasing stress

Never try to outstubborn a cat.

Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

Almost everyone thinks they are a good person, but the question you should be asking is, am I good enough to go to Heaven? How would you know?

My very first audition was on the lot of Paramount, and I was put on tape and it was very nerve-racking. I think it was about 15 pages.

Painting is a strange business.

reach isn’t describable in terms of cause and effect anymore: it’s simultaneous.

Don't let anybody make you think that God chose America as his divine, messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.

Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open?

God will not be behind-hand in love to us: for our drop, we shall receive an ocean.

Say this city has ten million souls, Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes: Yet there’s no place for us, my dear, yet there’s no place for us.