I think that it's an arguable position, whether with Hamas and ISIS around, whether there should be a Palestinian state, but it's a defensible position, given the current circumstances.

The prevailing view is that geniuses are largely built, not born.

We live in a culture of a big me. We're encouraged - we raise our kids to think how great they are, where we have to market ourselves to get through life. We're in social media, where we broadcast highlight - highlight reels of our own lives on Facebook.

I would have swapped out Donald Trump's frontal cortex for somebody else's for a little more self-control.

Courage is the most important virtue because it is the hardest.

If you do something really cognitively demanding, like buying furniture, it turns out buying furniture is one of the most difficult things we do. Go into a furniture store and look at a sofa.

I want to make big films. That's always been my ambition.