Writing is a mysterious activity.

It's not that you make up your ideas to justify your temperament but that it's the temperament first.

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

Along with people who pretty themselves for the camera, the unattractive and the disaffected have been assigned their beauty.

A photograph passes for incontrovertible proof that a given thing happened. The picture may distort; but there is always a presumption that something exists, or did exist, which is like what’s in the picture

Everything should be understood, and anything can be transformed - that is the modern view.

Fear binds people together. And fear disperses them. Courage inspires communities: the courage of an example - for courage is as contagious as fear. But courage, certain kinds of courage, can also isolate the brave.