I feel like developing the muscle of my imagination became a way to survive reality.

A whole film is just about arriving at a moment where you hopefully transfer some feeling to the audience.

I believe in what science fiction can do, which is it can set up simple rules that it has to follow to try to illuminate something about the present that is somewhat invisible to us.

One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.

When I'm sitting writing, I know that something works if I've made myself cry, or laugh, or have a visceral emotion.

Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy.

I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.

Writing so that I can act became a way of having not more control over my future but not having to wait for permission. You can choose yourself. Hmm, who should play this part? I nominate me!

Life and death and birth is this fantastic mystery that we cannot fully grasp.

I think what's so attractive about acting is that you get to live several lifetimes in one.

People go to the cinema to be moved; they wanna laugh, they wanna cry, they wanna feel something deeply, especially if they're not feeling deeply in their own lives.

Alcohol's been keeping depression alive and well for over ten thousand years.

We'll teach it that the humblest insect measuring out its miserable days by the pug-wuggery and skull duggery of the old Slug of Time is worth far more than this defecating bubble!

If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done.

notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening

We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?

Children, like animals use all their senses to discover the world. Then artists come along and discover it the same way...Or now and then we'll hear from an artisit who's never lost it.

I may be the type who manages to grab all the pointless things in life but lets the really important things slip away.

Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.

There is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument.

Set me like a seal upon thy heart, love is as strong as death.