A long time ago, I stopped trying to look at projects as genre exercises.

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

A long time ago, I stopped trying to look at projects as genre exercises.

Confidence is preparation in action.

I think more and more scientists are becoming convinced that it's very likely that life forms of some kind exist all around the universe not so far from us.

When Apollo 13 appeared as an opportunity and I began to tackle that in as authentic a way as I possibly could, I really became enthralled by the philosophical side of space travel, and why we need to explore - what it means to us here on Earth - all of those things. I became a huge proponent.

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