The truth is there's so many great TV shows out there now that none of us take absence of awards personally. The most important feedback is the feedback we get from the fans.

I just like the comic book sensibility. If I can turn them into films and TV series, that's just icing on the cake.

It's more important to get the right writer and the right take than it is to do something in a particular timeframe.

What's so wonderful about 'The Walking Dead' is that we're able to explore human nature in its most depraved as well as its most humanitarian in each episode.

A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.

We tend to be more environmental at home than at work, regardless of the industry we're in.

You don't want people to look at something and think that was a fantastic special effect.

A key ingredient to success, I learned, is relying on not only the kindness of strangers, but the kindness of colleagues.

If I'm going to fail, let me fail with something that I care deeply about.

I think that we can learn so much if we pay attention to our dreams, whether when we are asleep or in waking dreams. There are connections that are absolutely incredible.

Film-making is a business and at the bottom line people who don't make fiscally responsible decisions end up going into another line of work.

If you're handed sour grapestake off your shoes and start dancing

Falling in love is like seeing the ocean for the very first time, when all of your life you've been stepping in puddles.

I think that over the years, whether they want to admit it or not, people have to admit that the women astronauts have performed just as well as the men astronauts.

It's by what you do that you communicate to others that you are deeply involved in their well being.

It's very important to have two tiaras when you're on the road. You never know when you'll be invited to something really formal.

All books are merely delayed dust.

The anger of slow, mild, loving people has a lasting quality that mere bad-tempered folk cannot understand.

It's about love and loss, it struck me as a meaningful and compelling story, and the shifts in reality offered up strong visual possibilities.

Death is never polite, even when we expect it.

When people are feeling insecure, they'd rather have someone who is strong and wrong rather than somebody who is weak and right.