When you find something where you can give people a message and still make it an exciting movie, you get very, very excited about something. You probably even work harder than you normally do.

Nobody makes movies bad on purpose.

I'm a filmmaker, not a scientist.

I try to put in every one of my movies some sort of message. I don't want to overdo it, because I don't want people to get annoyed by it, but it's good to have a message.

Do not fear. Some things will never change.

I'm only a stupid filmmaker.

I think every good, entertaining movie should have a message. I really believe that, because if you do it without it, the film feels a little bit soulless.

It's like everybody is obsessed with Hollywood movies worldwide. And even though everybody hates the Americans, they're still watching American movies.

A lot of stuff in Wikipedia is not true, and that goes for a lot of people. I sometimes think, "How can that happen?" But Wikipedia is maintained by people, and everybody can add stuff to it.

Everybody knows that the industrialized nations are the worst offenders.

If you want to assemble the same people, then you have a big problem.

It's interesting how much you can tell about someone from their friends.

If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all.

Lewis was studying literary history with the present and future in mind.

The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth - it's about the redistribution of time.

The novel is resilient, and so are novelists.

It takes courage to begin something, but it can take even more to end it.

I'm not affected by violence the way some people are. I don't know why, but I enjoy that intensity.

Once, when the days were ages, And the old Earth was young, The high gods and the sages From Nature's golden pages Her open secrets wrung.

For the more a man limits himself, the nearer he is on the other hand to what is limitless.

How strange or odd some'er I bear myself, As I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on.