Why does the lizard stick his tongue out? The lizard sticks its tongue out because that’s the way its listening and looking and tasting its environment. It’s its means of appreciating what’s in front of it.
The idea of being a professional actor never occurred to anybody, including myself, for a long time.
How do I stay so healthy and boyishly handsome? It’s simple. I drink the blood of young runaways.
Babies have big heads and big eyes, and tiny little bodies with tiny little arms and legs. So did the aliens at Roswell! I rest my case.
Youth is the ultimate limited resource.
Somewhere in university, I realized that I hadn’t been to classes in months, and I’d get tired to the point of narcolepsy doing anything other than some form of performing, directing, writing, or acting.
Writing is truly a creative art – putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.
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.