"Reading a script is usually as exciting as reading a boilerplate legal document, so when you read one that makes you feel as if you're seeing the movie, you know it's something different."

"Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour."

"Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal."

"It's just as hard... staying happily married as it is doing movies."

"It is a essential truth that the universe speaks in the silent dialect of universal natural laws."

"The universe speaks in the silent dialect of universal natural laws. Remember this in moments of decisive trial."

"If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little."

"Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science."