We only really, deeply consider what our life is when we're faced with mortality on some level.

I'm always looking for the idea in a scene or the philosophy that makes a scene worth existing beyond exposition.

I love that India has declared dolphins non-human people with all laws that apply to human. I'm fascinated with the alien-ness of that.

Relationships are now off-kilter.

I'm not always successful, but I take my job as a storyteller very seriously and want to make sure the audience has as much fun watching it as I am creating it.

I think you have to write what you want to watch.

As an insecure writer, I'll finish a scene and worry there's a better version of it. Or it could be elevated somehow.

I think accessibility is what often denies horror its deserved attention. So it all depends on the execution and whether mainstream audiences can accept it.

You can't measure a dog's intelligence by giving him a verbal test 'cause it's not on their scale, but that doesn't mean they're not intelligent creatures.

International broadcasters are often dependent on an American home broadcasting network, so it changes the game entirely.

Jesus Christ, being 2000 years old and some change, is a relatively "new" god of the older god category - and has done quite well for himself, in terms of worship.

Running Doesn't Change Anything...Dying Does.

The library was the best place in the world.

One must also have faith to grow flowers...

I think the audience would like to see movies that are stunning to watch. I really think they'd like to see spectacles.

I divide all literary works into two categories: Those I like and those I don't like. No other criterion exists for me.

Do not become so attached to any one belief than you cannot see past it to another possibility. Brom to Eragon

Who knows why I had to go through what I had to go through to produce the kind of music I produce today, to be one of the greatest Africans playing music, who knows?

My voice was obviously God given and I have tried to give of myself honestly.

Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.

Anytime I make a movie, I really have absolutely no idea how it's going to go over. I've had the whole range of different kinds of reactions.