When you're little you believe whatever your mother tells you, so I assumed it must be true, that I must be inferior to the others in some way.

Were it not for my little jokes I could not bear the burdens of this office.

Leo Hurwicz is the father of mechanism design theory and has inspired much of my work, and Roger Myerson is an old friend and collaborator and a tremendous economist.

I think you should make movies as long as the story dictates.

When we say we have "hit the limits," we are saying that nature is the problem, when in fact the limits we have hit are the limits of destruction and waste, not nature.

London is a huge shop, with a hotel on the upper storeys.

Mach-5, the speed at which stress can't keep up, is simply forward motion. But it has to be self- propelled. Note that people in cars are still stressed.

Oscars are won with two or three shots only, because if it's really beautifully photographed, you don't really notice it until the astounding moment emphasizes it.

The awareness of imagery is part of living... a life which derives its power from within itself will focus on the perception... of images.

I hate watching myself on TV, I know a lot of actors say that, but it's true for me. It makes me sweat, I have to hide behind a cushion.

This is what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination.