I learned so much about the making of Star Wars and that became a real drive for me, right from the time I was 12 or 13.

If you want it bad enough, you'll get it.

The key is to work with people who are passionate about storytelling and who have a similar sensibility of the type and nature of the stories that you want to tell.

I never really understood how movies were made, because it was such a technical accomplishment.

I realized that there was an actual job of making movies. They weren't created by elves.

I always wanted to tell stories. From the time I had 20 cents or a quarter in my pocket, I could peddle my old Rambler 500 down to the corner store and buy comic books.

I love making genre films. It's something I've really been attracted to since I was a kid, mostly because, as a kid, it was forbidden fruit.

Movies, over time, as they do or don't find their audience, or they find a different audience, they change in your memory and in the eyes of those who see it.

It seems my heart is made of tissue paper

Anxiety is a sign that you have made up a story contrary to reality. Love does not fear.

I never think of him as a scholar assaulting me with how much he knows, but as a teacher eager to share a lifelong passion for the subject.

If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.

I think at the beginning of one's writing life, negative reviews are what one does to get attention and stake out your territory. It's also often a mistake.

Everybody talks and everybody listens, and somehow the truth just always comes up missin.

To be a nutritionist in France, you must be a doctor, seven years studies, and then three more years in nutrition.

Too few people in computer science are aware of some of the informational challenges in biology and their implications for the world. We can store an incredible amount of data very cheaply.

A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.

I desire you in friendship, and I will one way or other make you amends.