"A visionary sees the unseen possibilities in the heart of common struggles. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"I always had this non-stop drive. I had to keep sending stories out and every once in awhile I'd get something accepted or get the little trickle of positive feedback."

"I think that somebody with the resources and innovation and the idea is going to come out of nowhere and come up with a successful space travel program."

"It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I lit it, it just flared up and I kept getting ideas and ideas."

"You have to read scripts and audition and develop relationships. It takes a long time to develop a body of work but over the last 25 years I guess I've done that many movies. In hindsight it may seem effortless, but there's a lot of work that goes into it."

"Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre."

"He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good."

"The future of artificial intelligence is a complex system requiring robust ethical frameworks, if we can align its goals with humanity."