I was pretty young when I saw the original Planet of the Apes, and for a time in the seventies, I was pretty obsessed with it.

My degrees are in anthropology, and I have friends who have worked with apes.

The mirror never sees itself. The reflection never is itself.

Evolution crawls to imperfection. It ends in extinction.

It takes a while to get a movie together, and they dont start talking books until the movie is close to being finished.

Don’t dwell on the circumstances, focus on God’s grace.

[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.

Poor, ill-advised Roderich! What evil power did you conjure up to poison in its first youth the race you thought to have planted for eternity?

Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.

There are never any traffic jams on the extra mile.

I mean, look, Nancy Pelosi said in the very beginning this is going to be the most open, honest and ethical Congress in history. And what we're seeing is she's breaking that promise every day.

Adapting a book is essentially a collaboration, whether the author is alive or dead.

Whatever he was-that robot in the Garden of Eden, who existed without mind, without values, without labor, without love-he was not man.

I'd rather sit in bed and watch TV. All of my ex-boyfriends, of course, not Paris, would be like, 'What's the problem? You're so not sexual.'

A lot of things seem to be worth almost no money. but if you do them very well, and they help people fill a need, there's a great business you can build around that.