I'll put it to you this way: I never, ever think about the things that I get involved with on a macro means-to-an-ends scale.

To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to inaugurate new possibilities between spirituality and science that would shape the paradigms for culture, its institution, and its people.

Having a studio tell you when to jump and how high eight months of the year for six years is not a relationship I want to get into again.

I think that there's a hidden darkness in all of us!

Awe is the beginning of wisdom. Awe is the beginning of education.

After 'Lost', I never need to take a job for the money again.

Filmmaking is always sort of building a mosaic of this arc of what the character is going through.