Hire people you get along with, and then let them do what they do best.

Connecting dots is not that rewarding of an experience.

I've always been fascinated by Disneyland and Disney World, and my favorite part of the park was always Tomorrowland.

There is no suspense in inevitability.

If you do something awesome, you should be proud of yourself.

All great sci-fi is: Be careful what you wish for.

Once you spend more than $100 million on a movie, you have to save the world.

In really, really good science fiction the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.

One person's magical thinking is another person's cynicism.

I make no distinction between writing and storytelling; I've always wanted to tell stories.

As cliched as it sounds, if you have an original voice and an original idea, then no matter what anybody says, you have to find a way to tell that story.

When you get wisdom, failure and discouragement will get behind you.

Please do not mistake me for a twopenny villain. I do nothing without a purpose.

Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.

I don't kick dressing room doors, or the cat - or even journalists

One can spend too much of one's life locked in stuffy rooms seeking out obscure truths, searching, researching, until one is too old to enjoy life.

Everyone is alone and yet nobody can do without other people, not just because they are useful... but also when it comes to happiness.

What lies at the end of the life path? The answer is simple: Nothing lies over there! That's why mankind must change the end of the road!

A light breath fans the flame, a violent gust extinguishes it.

That city in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.