I used to be terribly shy, so I was either shy or over the top, and I always had a difficult time.

When you're young, there's so much that you can't take in. It's pouring over you like a waterfall. When you're older, it's less intense, but you're able to reach out and drink it. I love being older.

What makes these creatures so awful is the feeling that they can use us in ways too horrible to imagine-and yet, we DO imagine them, which makes it worse than seeing it.

I think that's what I really dig about science fiction these days - we've caught up to it in a way. It's no longer about people with huge brains. Now it's really much more, as Jim Cameron says, the nature of being human. What it is to be human in society. How to retain one's humanity in society.

It is one proof of a good education and of true refinement of feeling, to respect antiquity.

Art school is a very difficult thing to run in a generous, humane way, because academic power is somehow very corrupting.

I love working quickly. I don't like to do thousands of takes, and I don't want to do thousands of set ups.