Miloš Forman is a great director; Jim Brooks is a wonderful writer and director.

In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry.

Limits are a secret blessing, and bounty can be a curse.

There are as many forms of memory as there are ways of perceiving, and every one of them is worth mining for inspiration.

Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.

In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.

I was valedictorian. Did I enjoy going to school? I hated it. It wasn't a choice on my part, it was expected.