The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
I'm interested in how innocence fares when it collides with hard reality.
It's so easy today to get swept up in celebrity fixation and materialism and searching for some validation outside of yourself when we know it's really found within and through meaningful connections with other people.
I think there are many more stories still to be told about women.
If you do the math, films featuring women are a good investment.
It's always healthy to be taken down a notch, even though it's humbling.
My brothers were the ones who taught me about mythology and storytelling, and showed me how to do stop-motion animation.
I will veto any spending bill that contains funding for Planned Parenthood, facilities that perform abortion and all government family planning schemes.
Now it’s either about technology that doesn’t work or about technology that’s used in bad ways. The anthology of the top twenty-five sci-fi stories in 1970 was, like, ‘Me and my friend the robot went for a walk on the moon,’ and in 2008 it was, like, ‘The galaxy is run by a fundamentalist Islamic confederacy, and there are people who are hunting planets and killing them for fun. ’
The characters can't be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty
Preserving parks and open spaces is a winner because it doesn't need to be explained to everyday Americans.