Writing is a solitary existence. Making a movie is controlled chaos - thousands of moving parts and people. Every decision is a compromise. If you're writing and you don't like how your character looks or talks, you just fix it. But in a movie, if there's something you don't like, that's tough.

One could argue that there exist certain questions that are best left unanswered.

PHI is one H of a lot cooler than PI!

If you ask three people what it means to be Christian, you will get three different answers. Some feel being baptized is sufficient. Others feel you must accept the Bible as immutable historical fact. Still others require a belief that all those who do not accept Christ as their personal savior are doomed to hell.

Death is only a byproduct of terrorism.

The power of human thought grows exponentially with the number of minds that share that thought.

Knowledge is power, and the right knowledge lets man perform miraculous, almost godlike tasks.