Would a watermelon in the midst of a chase sequence not be, in its own organic way, emblematic of our entire misunderstood enterprise? At once totally logical and perfectly irrational?

I don't create blurs. Blurring is not the most important thing; nor is it an identity tag for my pictures.

The usual designation of the magnitude scale to my name does less than justice to the great part that Dr. Gutenberg played in extending the scale to apply to earthquakes in all parts of the world.

Starving the future to feed the present is a mistake - it leads to obsolescence and stagnation. Sometimes it is hard to make this understood.

Art is the highest form of hope.

Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field.

Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.

Economic freedom has no security without political freedom, and political freedom can find its security only in economic freedom.

A series of failures may culminate in the best possible result.

What would Chess be without silly mistakes?

Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?

I feel the healinghands of Godtouch my heartand kiss my soul.

Self-confidence is a great faith.

I am your number one fan.

Our humanness is the part of us that we try and push away, that we don't want to see, that we don't like. It's about self-acceptance, number one, and it's also about accepting our creation.

RyanAir have been getting a hard time because they've launched a £7 flight to New York. Although as always with RyanAir it does land slightly outside of New York. In Dublin.

A poem is not an expression, nor is it an object. Yet it somewhat partakes of both. What a poem is is never to be known, for which I have learned to be grateful.

We're all on a journey. The average American switches professions four times. I'm lucky to be in a business where I can change the character I am playing every couple of months.

I love animation, I really do, but I don't do it for the children.

I admired what my students were writing, but I think their improvement doesn't directly result from me but from being in a class, being with each other.