"Like books, artists have their fates."

“I would not look to the United States Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012.”

“I am now concerned with women's issues in a different way: women from Afghanistan, from Cambodia.”

“I've had a couple of ghost experiences, but I'm not a big fan of the spiritual side of things, of the ghost type thing. I don't know why, maybe it freaks me out a bit, or I'm more into tangible, physical beings rather than things that can pass through walls.”

“If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.”

Source : The Marriage of Heaven and Hell "A Memorable Fancy" plate 14 (1790 - 1793). Inspired the title of Aldous Huxley's 1954 book about drug experimentation, The Doors of Perception, which in turn inspired the name of the 1960s rock group The Doors.

“We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures.”

“My first film, 'Like Minds,' was with Toni Colette, who was extraordinary. I mean it was basically a mini-masterclass for acting on film at a time when all you could probably see were my eyebrows bouncing up and down on screen.”

“No man can make good during working hours who does the wrong thing outside of working hours.”

“You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a little different when you write science fiction. You are trying to take a different perspective on now.”