Believing in yourself is the first step to accomplishing any goal. If you think you're going to fail, you probably will.

To me, it's science fiction for me to do the things I've been blessed to do in this industry.

There are so many people who have lived and died before you. You will never have a new problem; you're not going to ever have a new problem. Somebody wrote the answer down in a book somewhere.

Well, all I know is what I read in the papers.

The value of a story isn't that it just has a narcotic effect. It's that it awakens something in you that makes you want to think, that makes you talk to other people, that stirs something that makes you examine the story that eventually turns into self-examination.

Greatness exists in all of us.

There's a certain delusional quality that all successful people have to have. You have to believe that something different than what has happened for the last 50 million years of history - you have to believe that something different can happen.