I meet a man with a thousand dollars and leave him with two; that's the meaning of subtraction.
If you're surrounded by good people and you're really honest with yourself, you'll be delivered.
I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.
Success is never bad in Hollywood. It is what you do with success that will dog you.
My films do very well on home video.
I used to be a die-hard defender of physical film, which I still am. I love shooting on physical film and I think it's great.
Directing has completely changed the way I write and watch films.
Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye to our convenience at all.
These Stepsons tread where mortals don't belong, some of us think. They seek out battle high above their station. Who knows what powers may yet take them and their mystic allies to task, bring them their comeuppance?
Before his death, Rabbi Zusya said "In the coming world, they will not ask me: 'Why were you not Moses?' They will ask me: 'Why were you not Zusya?
I would teach how science works as much as I would teach what science knows. I would assert (given that essentially, everyone will learn to read) that science literacy is the most important kind of literacy they can take into the 21st century. I would undervalue grades based on knowing things and find ways to reward curiosity. In the end, it's the people who are curious who change the world.