The key is to stay humble and hungry.

I think the key to making a good movie is to make sure that the audience cares about the characters.

科学的力量在于它的普遍性和无私性，它超越了国界和文化的限制。

The worst thing about war is that it makes people get used to death.

She's simply too strange. We can't relate to her, she speaks in a funny way, she comes from an odd place. So we can't relate to her, and when you can't relate to somebody, you don't envy them. The closer two people are -- in age, in background, in the process of identification -- the more there's a danger of envy, which is incidentally why none of you should ever go to a school reunion, because there is no stronger reference point than people one was at school with.

The act of writing is an act of memory.