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

What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: It's either a utopia or it's misery. The real truth is that there's going to be both things in any future, just like there is now.

Regrets are stupid; they don't mean anything and they don't add up to anything.

I have children. I have a family to support. But I really could live in a one-room apartment, as long as the television worked. I never needed anything. Just a comfortable chair and I'm fine.

Your spouse should be just attractive enough to turn you on. Anything more is trouble.

I've never been disappointed, because I've never given somebody I liked that much power.

You never do a movie and not want it to work. You accept whatever it is. You have to, but nobody in their right mind would not want the movie to be getting talked about at the end of the year.