"I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere."

"I love going out and doing new things."

"I have an iPhone, and I can text, and I can use the phone, and I can even take pictures with it."

"A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars - billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone."

".. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the 'Momentary' masters of a 'Fraction' of a 'Dot'"

"Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze."

"Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns."

"Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars."

"When I go out, I love steak and caviar."

"I'm always jumping on a plane somewhere. With my lifestyle, I'm all over the place."

"Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success."

"I sincerely apologize to anyone I may have inadvertently offended...The bag was a purchase I made as a tourist in China."

"By refocusing our space program on Mars for America's future, we can restore the sense of wonder and adventure in space exploration that we knew in the summer of 1969. We won the moon race; now it's time for us to live and work on Mars, first on its moons and then on its surface."

"Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions."

"I get to go to overseas places, like Canada."

"I never left France for Hollywood nor stashed my money in Switzerland."

"To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard. Become a saint of your own province and your own consciousness."

“If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.”

“Paris is always a good idea.”

“Adventures are never fun while you’re having them.”

I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for.

I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for.

Rivers run into the sea, but the sea is never full. Then the water returns again to the rivers and flows out again to the sea.

We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part.