“My writing has a lot of surprising twists.”

Words were another sword for the man who wielded them well.

We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.

Dad, one of my first memories is of sharing my worry with you about the space shuttle poking holes in the atmosphere and letting out all of Earth’s air.

When you don’t know what to do, do what’s right and do what’s in front of you. But not necessarily what’s right in front of you.

I like to bike a lot and do some 300s here and there. Really, I love to bike though. I like being outside and moving around, seeing the good scenery around Miami and such.

The spiritual master can instruct the disciple though many different formats.

If you are not free to say no, your yes is meaningless.

Bewildered as he might be, sometimes a man’s highest calling is simply to stand, and hug.

Giving is what fuels us. Giving is our future.

If I’m going to make music and put my heart and soul into this and dedicate my whole life to it, I want to be making something that 15, 20, 30 years from now, somebody is listening to and that is a staple of the time it came out.

[Music] business can drive you to do that if you don’t have it here. If you’re not strong-minded here, it could steer you the wrong way and when it steers you the wrong way, then it might take forever to get back.

It’s surprising how hard we’ll work when the work is done just for ourselves.

I don’t intentionally make my films with the express goal of surprising the viewer.

Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.

Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.

Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.

I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.