When I'm sitting writing, I know that something works if I've made myself cry, or laugh, or have a visceral emotion.

A whole film is just about arriving at a moment where you hopefully transfer some feeling to the audience.

I believe in what science fiction can do, which is it can set up simple rules that it has to follow to try to illuminate something about the present that is somewhat invisible to us.

One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.

Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy.

I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.

Writing so that I can act became a way of having not more control over my future but not having to wait for permission. You can choose yourself. Hmm, who should play this part? I nominate me!

Life and death and birth is this fantastic mystery that we cannot fully grasp.

I think what's so attractive about acting is that you get to live several lifetimes in one.

People go to the cinema to be moved; they wanna laugh, they wanna cry, they wanna feel something deeply, especially if they're not feeling deeply in their own lives.

I think there is a general unrest or curiosity about what a human future is going to be like, and whether the way we're living is even sustainable.

A life of passion is not an act or a habit but a lifestyle.

It is not about what you lose when it is over. Far more, it is about what you gain during the journey!

When the image is new, the world is new.

Like most people in radio - and in magic - I'm not cool. I know people who are hip, and I can feel distance between them and me.

I have been a systems engineer, systems administrator, a senior adviser for the Central Intelligence Agency, a solutions consultant and a telecommunications information systems officer.

Worry is a sustained form of fear caused by indecision

All we ask for is registration, just like we do for cars.

Our dreams are a second life.

Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.

Only God gets things right the first time.