Sometimes you have to do the things that scare you and that are outside of your comfort zone and challenge yourself.

Filmmaking is about moments. In real life, things might take six months, a year, but [in filmmaking] you have to create the moment where it happened.

That's what you want: you want projects that you fall in love with. I don't think you pick your projects; you fall in love with them.

What scares me is not living up to be a good enough father to my son and letting down my family - not being there enough and not being able to give enough of yourself.

Making a movie is universal. Directing a movie is universal; it's a universal language.

I'm very tired, but this is what every filmmaker dreams about: that their $15 million, under-the-radar film is now being seen by so many people.

Turing was fearless. He's extremely direct, which can be seen as socially awkward, and that becomes both his big obstacle but also, in many ways, his strength.

I'm such a romantic at heart.

Oh Maker, what did they really say about your black creation? I think you made a beautiful work of art on a canvass of rebellion. Hey, Maker! We are still selling out!

The rich that are rejoicing having conquered life, should beware & rethink, for no man can conquer death.

The true measure of a man is the degree to which he has managed to subjugate his ego.

Prayer sweeps the battlefield, slays the enemy, and buries the bones.

I was drafted during the Korean War.

Ladies and Gentlemen...we are floating in Space!

That's her secret, I suppose. Everything that happens to her she's proud of. She makes it special by it happening to her.

Being nervous is not something you should be ashamed of. Nervous means you care, you really want to do well.

The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other peoples.

When duty calls, that is when character counts.