For me, comfort is paramount.
I have to believe I got some kind of say over our lives.
I think if there's some kind of crisis in news journalism. . . a crisis of credibility, then it's been created by journalists. I'm empathetic, I understand it and I see it, but I'm not sympathetic about it. If you want people to think of journalism with higher regard then do better work.
I never looked at Noah as an animal collector. I always thought of him as an apocalyptic character. I read everything I found about it and was surprised to find that in all religions there is the story of the flood, and that one "hero" saved the world. This proved that Noah and his Ark - were not a religious myth, and is evidence that humanity really went through the flood.
You can't understand it until you experience the simple joy of the first time your son points at a seagull and says 'Duck!'
I hate having long hair. It's like walking around with a dead koala on your back!
If there's anything about someone's life that's important enough to make a movie about it, I have to take responsibility to get all of it right. It's a huge responsibility.
It's more important to hire people with the right qualities than with specific experience.
The idle always have a mind to do something.
There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done. This is what the West has done with its colonial system. It shook all the societies in the world loose from their old moorings. But it seems indifferent whether or not they reach safe harbour in the end.
Fame is not the glory! Virtue is the goal, and fame only a messenger, to bring more to the fold.