There is no suspense in inevitability.

If your friend is critical [of your work], you have to have a very thick skin and a thick skin is something that only builds up after it's callused for awhile.

Once you spend more than $100 million on a movie, you have to save the world.

Anger is not a real feeling. Every time in my life I've ever been angry, it's because I was scared, or because I was sad and I didn't know it. Anger doesn't just come out of a vacuum.

All great sci-fi is: Be careful what you wish for.

One of the things I've learned is there's no lesson to be learned. You have to resign yourself to the fact that mistakes are going to be made at any time in the creative process.

I'm not glass-half-full, glass-half-empty; I'm like, "There's a glass?"