“Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.”

“If you're going to make a science fiction movie, then have a hover craft chase, for God's sake.”

“I’m assuming you’re as mystified by this as the rest of us, Rasputin. No. I’m not. I have been planning to destroy the Breakworld since I was a child.[silence]This is why I don’t make so many jokes. I never know when is good.”

“Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.”

“I'd rather make a show 100 people need to see, than a show that 1000 people want to see.”

“Ain't all buttons and charts, little albatross. Know what the first rule of flying is? Well I s'pose you do, since you already know what I'm 'bout to say.I do. But I like to hear you say it.Love. Can know all the math in the 'verse but take a boat in the air that you don't love? She'll shake you off just as sure as a turn in the worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home.”

“I loved the idea of a girl going into a dark alley, and a monster comes, and then she just aces him. It’s like, you want to see the tiny person suddenly take control. God, my whole career is basically about that!”