I think the most important thing really was that you could take very personal ideas and present them to an audience in entertaining ways..

I've just looked for ideas and great characters that I relate to and that I think I can offer something to the audience, and I no longer look at them….

Humor is unavoidable. It might not feel funny in the moment, but more often than not there's a light at the end of the tunnel..

Death can be experienced once, winning maybe more, but losing can happen all the time..

You're always a little surprised when something really takes off..

It was always my dream to be a director. A lot of it had to do with controlling my own destiny, because as a young actor you feel at everyone's dispo….

I'm not a caterer. I just have to stay with my creative convictions. At some point, you have to just get past the special-interest groups and do what….

One of the great things about being a director as a life choice is that it can never be mastered. Every story is its own kind of expedition, with its….

You reach a point where you say you're not going to do juveniles any longer..

There's a very real argument that the minute we are capable of going to a planet, whether it's Mars or another one, and inhabiting it, that we really….

Confidence is preparation in action..

3-D is a truly exciting possibility..

The sooner we become a multi-planet species, the safer the species is, and the stronger the guarantee that we're going to continue to evolve..

I've acted with all types, I've directed all types. What you want to understand as a director, is what actors have to offer. They'll get at it howeve….

I think it's in our nature to try to get beyond that next horizon. I think that when we as a species are scratching that itch we're actually followin….

It was always hard to find stories that I felt were, in and of themselves, fresh enough and intriguing enough ..

When Apollo 13 appeared as an opportunity and I began to tackle that in as authentic a way as I possibly could, I really became enthralled by the phi….

I just don't think of myself as an actor much at all, so I don't lust after any particular roles..

If I had to choose between a great acting job and a good directing job, I'd choose the directing job..

Of course, I was completely enthralled by the space program as a kid - particularly Apollo 11 - and was glued to the television like most of the worl….

I think more and more scientists are becoming convinced that it's very likely that life forms of some kind exist all around the universe not so far f….