You have no beginning of time. It's always been there.

My goal is to get people thinking and trying to wrap their heads around the amazing things that have been achieved and to dream about what will be achieved.

The only people who can fix Africa are talented young Africans. By unlocking and nurturing their creative potential, we can create a step change in Africa's future.

We are analog beings living in a digital world, facing a quantum future.

Quantum physics is one of the hardest things to understand intuitively, because essentially the whole point is that our classical picture is wrong.

There have been bangs in the past. There will be bangs in the future. We may live in an endless universe.

That's progress: when we prove things wrong.

What I most wanted even at that early age, was to capture and hold the truth, with the certainty and love that it brings.

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.

The sound of you, it offends me. Abomination, I command you to be silent.

It's pretty amazing to go from a world where computers were unheard of and very complex to where they're a tool of everyday life.

Actors who perhaps are super-confident and have absolute belief in themselves I always admire, because I can't really be like that.

A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.

Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.

The whites of the younger generation, in the colleges and universities, will see the handwriting on the wall and many of them will turn to the spiritual path of truth.

I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.

Make DV movies so you can learn how to make films, but don't try to distribute them until they are fantastic.

First problem. To produce wealth. Second problem. To distribute it.