That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.
I'm not sitting around thinking of ideas for TV shows.
I've always been fascinated by Disneyland and Disney World, and my favorite part of the park was always Tomorrowland.
I stand by the Lost finale. It's the story that we wanted to tell, and we told it. No excuses. No apologies. I look back on it as fondly as I look back on the process of writing the whole show. And while I'll always care what you think, I can't be a slave to it anymore. Here's why: I did it for me. I liked it. I was good at it. And I was really … I was alive.
Once you spend more than $100 million on a movie, you have to save the world.
I make no distinction between writing and storytelling; I've always wanted to tell stories.
I look at myself more as a storyteller than a screenwriter, as pretentious as that may sound, but that's what really attracts me to TED Talks. For me, the really effective ones are being presented by expert storytellers.
I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise.
Technology tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. People generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can be, how it imposes severe limits on variability and thus makes whole populations fatally vulnerable to the shocking ways our universe can throw the dice.
He [Ryan white] spoke to me that my life was out of order. My life was a mess. I had no values anymore. And he was so stoic with his infection. He wasn't bitter. He wasn't angry. He just was a kid. He wanted to go to school and play football, drive his car. And he had no bitterness about him.