I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world, for the simple reason that they are obviously wrong.

If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.

Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount of factual historical record about the life of a prophet and about social conditions in Arabia at that time. So it's possible to look at the origin of Islam in a scholarly way.

Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today.

The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.

We are the storytelling animal.

You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.