Ours is a society in which secrets of private life that, formerly, you would have given nearly anything to conceal, you now clamor to get on a television show to reveal.

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their minds.

In a lot of writing or intellectual discourse we're starting to use that model: "Oh, this is where it comes from!" I would like to concentrate on work which is more resistant to that procedure, as I think fiction is.

Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.

It is passivity that dulls feeling.

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.