To come up short when you reach too far is not such a bad thing rather than not to reach at all, right?

When you do a studio picture, all the paperwork and legal stuff is already taken care of!

Theres so much diversity of opinion out there, so ultimately you have to listen to it, put it aside, and make what you want to make.

After I script the movie, I have to storyboard it out, I have to budget it, and I have to understand if I can afford all those visual effects or not.

There are trappings of science fiction which I kind of embrace, but there are also cliches which I run from.

In all my science fiction movies, I try to blend the familiar with the futuristic so as not to be too off putting to the audience. There is always something familiar they can grab onto.

Sometimes, if you leave yourself open, an actor can bring nice nuances to a character.

Strangely, I always have a lot of cut scenes. I keep writing shorter and shorter scripts, thinking that this time, I'll get all my scenes in.

If I know what my finale is when I'm writing a screenplay, then I don't always have to chart out every scene before that. I can adequately find my way. I'm experienced enough to do that.

I guess you don't make any franchise movies unless the fans are there.

I don't want to have so much humor [in films] that it undermines the jeopardy, but enough to sometime relieve tension.

Manifestation is a process by which we transform seemingly unrealizable imaginations to reality.

Every mistake is a new style.

Your manners are critical for both making a positive first impression and creating success in life, love, and business.

The "human condition" is always to push forward for the better and economics is the study of that process.

Truth is something which you must see immediately — and to see something clearly you must give your heart and your mind and your whole being to it immediately.

A man's enemies are those he should endeavor first to make his friends.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

For all we know, we know nothing.

Stalin and Mao killed over 80 million and did not make omelets despite the broken eggs.

Great books, like large skulls, have often the least brains.