I'd always liked movies in a kind of naive way. They seemed no less improbable a career than anything else.

I have trouble working off things that are too preconceived, like storyboards.

I was not a good teacher; I didn't have the sort of edge one should have on the students, so I decided to do something else.

There's a good many pictures I'd like to make; we'll see how many I'll be allowed to make.

To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.

In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how well you're doing in your education system.

But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated.

I've always been a big supporter of the Surfrider Foundation. I started my own foundation, Rob Machado Foundation, which focuses on environmental education for the little people of the world.