I love 'The Stand;' I read it when I was a kid - it was one of my favorite books when I was growing up. I love Stephen King; I think he's a remarkable writer.

I like to create an atmosphere where actors feel safe enough to take risks.

You never want to be the director who dropped the ball, you know?

In an ideal world, I'd bounce between big projects and no-budget TV dramas with fantastic scripts.

I'm a Harry Potter fan.

I like happy sets. Happy sets are good, and I think people feel comfortable on them.

Personally, I read a lot of scripts.

Naysayers are frightened of their own power.

Democracy is more vindictive than cabinets, the wars of peoples will be more terrible than those of kings.

I stared down into her eyes, my voice barely a whisper. "If I stay here any longer, I'm not going to be able to stop myself from kissing you.

Maybe to feel superior in struggle was sensed, When people were aware to fight for identity.'-Terzanelle for Octavia Estelle Butler, poem by Marieta Maglas

No one likes to talk about the positive parts of getting older and aging into orphanhood, how with your parents you often bury a lot of things you were never able to confront or fix or let go of.

It's true that compared with the scene when Unix started, today the ecological niches are fairly full, and fresh new OS ideas are harder to come by, or at least to propagate.

The little things are important, Mr. Wind-Up Bird.

I made a 1,600 minus 800 minus 200 on the SAT, so I'm very intelligent when I speak.

You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.

Spur not an unbroken horse; put not your plowshare too deep into new land.