Humor is unavoidable. It might not feel funny in the moment, but more often than not there's a light at the end of the tunnel.

Confidence is preparation in action.

The sooner we become a multi-planet species, the safer the species is, and the stronger the guarantee that we're going to continue to evolve.

It was always hard to find stories that I felt were, in and of themselves, fresh enough and intriguing enough .

Death can be experienced once, winning maybe more, but losing can happen all the time.

I think the most important thing really was that you could take very personal ideas and present them to an audience in entertaining ways.

One of the great things about being a director as a life choice is that it can never be mastered. Every story is its own kind of expedition, with its own set of challenges.