I was a volleyball player as a kid. I played volleyball all the time.

Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections.

I have absolutely no musical talent of my own!

I don't think there is anything more bitter in American politics than a close election.

I was alone a lot as a kid, because my parents were divorced.

I love the idea of a movie hero in a thriller who is able to get ahead by just his brilliance, and not with a gun or by being an action hero.

I've found that sitting around and obsessing about projects moving forward, when there's actually nothing I can do about it, at a certain point, is really counter-productive.

Certainly, for me, and it's gone this way on every project I've worked on, the "writing" never ends until you're done with the movie.

The auditioning process is one in which the actor gets very little information about almost every element of it.

My goal isn't so much genre, or fact-based or not fact-based. I just want to work on projects that I think could be great.

Everything I've written up to now, hasn't had anything to do with my life really.

Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou art.

I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.

Electricity is really just organized lightning.

Science is telling us that we can do phenomenal things if we put our minds and our resources to it.

We flew down weekly to meet with IBM, but they thought the way to measure software was the amount of code we wrote, when really the better the software, the fewer lines of code.

If you tilt the whole country sideways, Los Angeles is the place where everything loose will fall.

When we truly embrace acceptance, that's when our body exhales and can begin healing.

The strongest thing that baseball has going for it today are its yesterdays.

You can't cross a sea by merely staring into the water.

The principle of happiness should be like the principle of virtue: it should not be dependent of things, but be a part of personality [and character].