My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer.

The nation that leads in renewable energy will be the nation that leads the world 10, 20 years from now.

Here's my philosophy in life: If there's a fire, you put it out. If there's a flood, you fill sandbags and you build a dike. You roll up your sleeves and you get to work.

The magic doesn't come from within the director's mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors.

We have a great responsibility. Whatever we make will become the truth, the visual reality that a generation will accept.

There seems to be a lot of excitement around something that, to me, is a yawn, frankly.

The literature now is so opaque to the average person that you couldn't take a science-fiction short story that's published now and turn it into a movie. There'd be way too much ground work you'd have to lay. It's OK to have detail and density, but if you rely on being a lifelong science-fiction fan to understand what the story is about, then it's not going to translate to a broader audience.