If you paint, write, do mosaics, knit - if it's solving that part of your brain saying, 'I need to do this,' you've won.

There's always the standard six people you can hire that have played all these villains in Hollywood. Instinctively, when they come on screen, you know what's going to happen. You don't know the story, but you know what they do.

It's interesting when you're part of a group - the Jews, to be exact - that the world has had such problems with.

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.

How many people didn't get a part who would have been better than the person who got the part? Thousands.

Film is the cheapest part of the movie making process. The expense is the 100-man crew and the financing and everything.

So I think if you're happy with your brain, you're powerful.