Writing was the only thing that populated my life and made it magic.

When you are in doubt and lost, to find the way, chose love.

In extreme youth in our most humiliating sorrow we think we are alone. When we are older we find that others have suffered too.

As a filmmaker, deep blacks are essential, and in my experience, no technology captures those attributes as well as Plasma.

Every human interaction offers you the chance to make things better or to make things worse.

So when you ask me how string theory might be tested, I can tell you what's likely to happen at accelerators or some parts of the theory that are likely to be tested.

She looks like someone I want to know, or maybe even be.

Good kings are slaves, and their people are free.

Mothers support certain illusions about their children, and one of my illusions was that I liked who I was, because she did. When she passed away, so did that idea.

The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.

Everyone has a warped vision of Hollywood and what success in Hollywood is like.