"Even though I'm a realist, I try to let the medium show and allow it a certain degree of freedom."

“I am obsessed with trash TV. I watch all reality shows. I watch all the 'Housewives.' I am a huge fan of 'New Jersey.'”

Source : "The next Bethenny". Interview with Sean Daly, nypost.com. September 11, 2012.

“I'm basically quite a cheerful person.”

“In some cities they tear down buildings to save taxes. They might try tearing down some taxes to save buildings.”

“Carl Sagan always used to say that when he was trying to explain something to someone, he would go back to that time when he didn't understand it, and then he would retrace his thought steps so that he could make it absolutely clear, and that's one of the infinite number of things I learned from him.”

Source : "Neil deGrasse Tyson and Executive Producer Ann Druyan Talk COSMOS: A SPACETIME ODYSSEY, Public Appetite for Science, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 17, 2014.

“Vision gets the dreams started.”

“I'm not sure what the moral is here...I really just wanted to tell that story.”

“I wouldn't feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy - I'd be bored to death.”

“Equality of economic opportunity, in the context of private property, means equality of opportunity for the millions of capital-less households of today to buy, pay for, and employ in their lives the non-human factor of production, capital.”