When a language die we don't know what we lose with language.

Languages are dying at an unprecedented rate. A language dies every 14 days.

Trust your imagination. There is always something in the box.

Deliver more than you promise.

If something is not to your liking, change your liking.

When you try hard to do your best, the effect on your performance is often to jinx it.

Fear is a matter of misplaced attention. Focus on redirecting it.

You can't conceive the perverse ingenuity he could put into hiding his affections.

We are playing with desires that disappear.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

There may be no good reasons for very many opinions that are held with passion.

I was an English major in university and that got me into novels, but I read a lot of books as a kid.

Whoever kindles the flames of intolerance in America is lighting a fire underneath his own home.

My office is trashed,” he grumped as he squished across his damp carpet and took the coffee that I was holding out to him. “Why are you smiling? My fish are dead.

I'm beginning to think I have two years encountering sexism without really realising it.

I don't really say much about reviewers. It's a very tough job to get all of the depth of a movie all at once.

When you're working on a project, make sure at least one person knows what they are doing.