I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to the ocean.

It took me a long time to realize that you have to have a bit of an interlanguage with actors. You have to give them something that they can act with.

Tread softly upon the earth because the faces of the unborn look up at you.

Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality.Don't put limitations on yourself.Others will do that for you.

Literary science fiction is a very, very narrow band of the publishing business. I love science fiction in more of a pop-culture sense. And by the way, the line between science fiction and reality has blurred a lot in my life doing deep ocean expeditions and working on actual space projects and so on. So I tend to be more fascinated by the reality of the science-fiction world in which we live.

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

I try to live with honor, even if it costs me millions of dollars and takes a long time. It's very unusual in Hollywood. Few people are trustworthy - a handshake means nothing to them. They feel they're required to keep an agreement with you only if you're successful or they need you.