You have to create your life. You have to carve it, like a sculpture.
The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that’s the appeal of science fiction.
I had a major in business, and I graduated with a business degree, but I was perhaps the worst student to graduate from that program.
The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that we’re looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird.
Energy is the key to creativity. Energy is the key to life.
I think the supernatural is a catch-all for everything we don’t understand about the vast other parts of life that we cannot perceive.
I’ve discovered that the more freedom I have to be creative, the more creative I become.
Stop and smell the garlic! That’s all you have to do.
A director is a choreographer, both politically and creatively.
My wife and my three kids and my grandchildren are my life, but my horses and my dogs are everything else.
I love the concept of togetherness and the entwinement of marriage.
I think making a good film shot is joyful.
I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I’ve talked to coal miners, and that’s really hard work.
I love to evoke the bones and meat and thoughts of characters.
Being an icon is overrated, remember an icon can be moved by a mouse.
Don’t be afraid of making an ass of yourself. I do it all the time and look what I got.
I don’t want people to know me. I want them to believe my version.
A sense of the unknown has always lured mankind and the greatest of the unknowns of today is outer space. The terrors, the joys and the sense of accomplishment are epitomized in the space program.
We meet aliens every day who have something to give us. They come in the form of people with different opinions.
This is my saddest story: In grade school, they would have us open our Valentine’s cards and read them out loud. I always sent cards to myself because nobody else did.