It's always great when you want scientific fact to get a really good science fiction writer to talk to you about it.

It's a wonderful feeling when your father becomes not a god but a man to you - when he comes down from the mountain and you see he's this man with weaknesses. And you love him as this whole being, not as a figurehead.

You have an internal critic, an internal drive that says, 'OK, you can do more.' Maybe that's what keeps you going.

I was once walking in an airport and a woman came up to me and said, 'Be zany!'. That'd be like walking up to Baryshikov and going, 'Plie! Just do a plie! Do it! Do a releve right now! Lift my wife!'

Comedy pays the bills if I can't find a film.

Avoid using the word 'very' because it's lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don't use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason boys - to woo women - and in that endeavor, laziness will not do.

If women ran the world there would be no wars. However every 28 days there would be some very intense negotiations.