No one wants to see a hero have to pick up his cane to hit someone, but I'm still quite fit enough to fake it.

I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.

I continue to develop some things for myself and also take advantage of good parts as they come along.

You keep on going until you get it as close to being right as the time and patience of others will allow.

You have to have the darkness for the dawn to come.

When we protect the places where the processes of life can flourish, we strengthen not only the future of medicine, agriculture and industry, but also the essential conditions for peace and prosperity.

The capacity to create [visual] effects in the computer has made the job easier, but it has also introduced the complexity that you can with a few more keystrokes generate such a busy canvas that the eye doesn't know where to go. You lose human scale on an event and you're just wowed by the kinetics and the visualization. But, often in those cases I feel you lose touch with the human characters and what it is that they would feel and how they might feel, and that's still the most important part.