You always got to be happy when somebody likes what you do. It's stupid not to be happy.

I don't want to get close to people who have secrets that I don't know about.

You know, I became a director out of necessity. I was writing comedies, and I couldn't find anybody to deliver it correctly.

If you're going to act and do this for a living, you want to play something that the audience didn't expect.

I've always enjoyed stories that take place in the future but my one disappointment was that the future books described never came. We're not on other planets, there are no flying cars, and the only robots we have in our homes just sweep the floor. So I wanted to write about a future that I thought could really happen. People ask me when I tell them the title of the book, 'Are we all dead?' The good news is, no. We're still here. And I even think the future in my book is strangely hopeful, although I'm sure there will be people who strongly disagree.

The biggest waste of brainpower is to want to change something that's not changeable.

I cast unusual people in my movies.