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The one way to get me to work my hardest was to doubt me.

To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up.

If someone comes to you with, 'It's my kid's graduation,' you don't tell them, 'Sorry, you can't go to that.' You just don't do that. You figure out some other way.

Grief is a room without doors - but somehow, with its tinsel and cliches, Christmas finds a way in.

'The Nightmare Before Christmas' is my number one biggest influence artistically in every way.

I got a .30-30 for Christmas in the seventh grade. It wasn't what I asked for, by the way.

I closely follow everything about user interface or human-computer interface: technology that makes computers closer to the way the human being actually functions.

The whole aesthetics of computers very much feeds into my OCD. They fill my head with obsessionalities and my actions become very repetitive. It seems quite inimical to the dreamy state out of which fiction comes which seems so much less causally repetitive than the way one works on computers.

But computers have changed the world for everyone, so there will be some way of working it out.

My love of computers, besides being practical, is very direct and visceral. I love the way things look on the screen.

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.

Cities have become places where we are controlled, by CCTV and other means, in the same way as machines are controlled. My works provide an imaginative space in which this can be challenged. It's like opening a window in a closed room.

I couldn't get my first film on the air. The first film I did was called 'The Race For Space,' about the U.S.-Soviet space race. The networks had a policy that I found out about the hard way. I even had a sponsor for my program, but the networks wouldn't put it on because it was independently produced.

I grew up watching a lot of the coverage of the early U.S. space program, all the way back starting with Mercury and then through Gemini and Apollo and of course going to the moon as the main part of the Apollo program.

If you move something 10 pounds through space and then stop suddenly, there's a little overshoot. When you transfer weight from one leg to another, there's a certain way that it happens.

The best space movie in my view is 'Apollo 13.' That's just the way it happened.

I would say that the whole way that I have approached the body is as a space, not a thing - not an object to be improved, idealised or whatever, but simply to be dwelt in.

Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.