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

People call me a perfectionist, but I'm not. I'm a rightist. I do something until it's right, and then I move on to the next thing.

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.

There is a vast frontier that's going to take us a while to understand... it was very lunar, a very desolate place, isolated.

You're so stupid, Rose!

I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all.

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