When you're shooting a movie that's not necessarily a huge budget, you have to think about what you can leave out and still make it interesting.

Simplicity is the pursuit of the essential.

Just when you think you're playing your cards right, God shuffles the deck.

The lessons we learn, we must learn again and again.

Hitting your head against a wall is not the fastest way to move it.

John Adams was a farmer, Abraham Lincoln a small town lawyer. Plato and Socrates were teachers. Jesus was a carpenter. To equate wisdom and judgement with occupation is at best insulting.

The opposite of simplicity is not complexity, but fragmentation and alienation.

I think people do sci-fi a huge disservice by lumping it as some sort of bizarre subculture genre when I think everybody's lives are impacted by sci-fi at some point.

If a person is dying of cancer, you do not say, 'You can't turn back the clock.' You try to heal the person, no matter how painful the process.

The defenders of the status quo often masquerade as the preservers of harmony.

We are all riding on the same bus.

Life is a mystery to be lived not a problem to be solved.

They don't know the distinction between taking care of a child and raising a child.

Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don't let anyone limit your dreams.

I think sometimes by portraying our lives as being too perfect, as being too balanced, we're actually selling younger women a bill of goods that's not true.

An ideal's love-fraught, imperious call That bides the spheres become articulate.

I was heavily influenced by my first attempt at a novel. I started a fantasy novel back in high school, and... well... it really sucked. It was a plotless, clichéd mess.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

You're a star -- and so am I. I'm a genius -- and so are you. Your success encourages my brilliance, and my charisma enhances your power. Your victory doesn't require my defeat, and vice versa.

Evil's just destructive? Then storms are evil, if it's that simple. And we have fire, and there there's hail. Underwriters lump it all under 'Acts of God.

There were certain areas in the country where I couldn't go without being stopped and asked for autographs and pictures for years.