"What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television."

"The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of."

"When I was a kid going into the movies, you weren't force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be."

"I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I think."

"You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean."

"Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts."

"Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression."

"The harmony of the universe dictates that the echo of our deeds ripples through eternity."