I was raised on technology. I grew up in Livermore, California, a town of physicists and cowboys. My parents worked at the government laboratories there. So technology was very normal for me.

Robots touch something deeply human within us. For me, robots are all about people.

My most memorable science fiction experience was Star Wars and seeing R2D2 and C3PO. I fell in love with those robots.

Kids love robots. They're this fanciful, cool thing.

It's a sad day for American Capitalism when a man can't fly a midget on a kite over central park.

Feminism...is not 'women as victims' but women refusing to be victims.

Time does not heal, but it can liberate. A race run well can never be lost.

Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.

We live for games like these.

Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.

Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.

Writing is very improvisational. It's like trying to fix a broken sewing machine with safety pins and rubber bands. A lot of tinkering.

I liked the idea of being a writer and letting somebody else do the graft.

That mysterious independent variable of political calculation, Public Opinion.