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.

My lawyers will fricassee your testicles for breakfast. And if you dare board my plane without a warrant, your spleen will follow.

Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.

To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books.

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

The more science I studied, the more I saw that physics becomes metaphysics and numbers become imaginary numbers. The farther you go into science, the mushier the ground gets. You start to say, 'Oh, there is an order and a spiritual aspect to science.

Forgiveness is God's greatest gift