I think people are destined for something incredible if we don't wipe ourselves out, but I think we're going to wipe 90 percent of ourselves out.

Generally speaking, it's a very hard thing to wrap your head around that a drone operator in Nevada can be releasing munitions in the Middle East.

I actually think Johannesburg represents the future. My version of what I think the world is going to become looks like Johannesburg.

If something is as smart as you, do you treat it differently if it isn't a human?

I think that 'Elysium' the movie is unrealistic, with the space station and everything. I think 'Elysium' the metaphor is completely realistic: it's exactly where we're going.

I think the world of 'District 9' has a lot of race and oppression-based ideas that I would still like to explore in that world.

When I was in my early 20s, I was quite into Japanese animation. It's like the same thing that I end up always saying which is, imagery based stuff is the thing that really gets me.

If you don't have something that glues the audience to the screen, you're in trouble.

A lot of America is kind of done. People have been making films about it for 100 years. Everything to me feels used up. But Jo-Burg feels unbelievably inspirational to me.

I never think of things rationally or intellectually. I swear, every single decision I make is just instinct and my instincts tend to be accurate.

I do think that it's always okay to show too little. People will still be interested. So why show too much?

Do not wait to know you are dying before you start living.

The proper direction of man's thought is not toward the creation of new laws for government, but toward the acceptance of every person's moral dignity.

Peacemaking is a full-time vocation that includes each member of God's people.

Of all the doctrines of the Bible none is so offensive to human nature as the doctrine of God's sovereignty.

If we were all to be judged by our thoughts, the hills would be swarming with outlaws.

For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?

Our moods and insights are transitory. This current is a flow of grace moving us to our right livelihood, companions, destiny.

I want the world to see, you can have a million stones thrown at you and you can still be positive.

I don't intend to be insensitive to the victims and their families but, at the same time, as an actor, it's our job, and we are obligated to portray the characters in the most realistic way possible.

If you don't make a decision about how you are going to live, then you have already made a decision, haven't you?