The accolade of your peers is very exciting, always. There's lots of good stuff on the ballot.

It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.

My feelings towards Scott Card are pretty mixed. Politically, he and I are pretty far apart.

I had this really great amazing thing happen where I almost finished the book and I really needed to come up with an ending and I decided to go back and re-read the book and see if I could come up with an ending.

The accolade of your peers is very exciting, always. There's lots of good stuff on the ballot.

It's weirder and more surprising than the other books. I think there are more places where it's just more reality bending, deliberately so. I think it's a lot more emotionally raw.

Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do.

I think that this misses out on some of the interesting narrative realities, which is that it actually doesn't work very well, that eliminating diversity is actually a really good way to make a species and its individuals less robust.

It's a story of little girls who are pressed into working in sweat shops in games, who spend all day doing repetitive grinding tasks like making shirts, which are then converted into gold and sold on eBay.

The other one I did was "I, Robot." I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world.

I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that page have a lot to do with what's going on in my life.

It's hard not to like Asimov; he's a really likable guy.

Well, I don't know. It's long, it's longer than both of the other books put together, so it's more ambitious. I think I get under the skin of the people a lot more than in the other books.

Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks.

The other one I did was 'I, Robot.' I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world.

Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.

Disney is a delight someone who... sweeps those around him along on his dream.

Engineers are all basically high functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.

Like all security, privacy is hard.

All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.

I think that Utopia is a theory of human action...

Factory farming came about from a moral race to the bottom, with corporations vying against each other to produce more and bigger animals with less care at lower cost.

I'm a great supporter of women who take risks and don't make victimhood into an art. It's not good for women, and it's not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - a woman's basket.

I have to say that filming 'The Night Manager' was not just amazing but also very daunting at first. I used to describe myself as the token plebeian surrounded by all your national treasures. All that glittering talent in one place; I knew Hugh from Fry and Laurie videos that my grandpa used to watch, and Tom Hollander's 'Rev' is hilarious.

Money and prices and markets don't give us exact information about how much our suburbs, freeways, and spandex cost. Instead, everything else is giving us accurate information: our beleaguered air and watersheds, our overworked soils, our decimated inner cities. All of these provide information our prices should be giving us but do not.

Goals are like bananas they come in bunches.

If you look at the content of songs people write, it's usually about the things they know best.

For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.

It's such a rich experience when you enter into a subject from a documentary point of view. It's hard for fiction to compete with that.

Excellence is a habit acquired by continuous improvement on the little things you do with a firm belief that it's going to be better than before!

But the fact is, it's illegal for the Administration to spend North west taxpayers' money to develop this rate hike proposal, just so it can turn around and raise their energy rates.

I think not focusing on money makes you sane because in the long run it can probably drive you crazy.

Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness.

When you're DJing, there are songs I love to play, but I know people are going to walk off. It doesn't matter what I like. You have to be able to play the popular song and slip in one of yours, in such a way that they don't notice it. You've got them in such a roll that you get them back into what they think they like.

Be on your toes tonight - or I'll be on yours tomorrow.

There's something very touching to me about someone almost communicating to themselves in some way - trying to come to some deeper understanding of yourself and having compassion for yourself.

The blues - the sound of a sinner on revival day.

What does it take to be a great social chronicler? Perhaps one of the key attributes is an understanding of what it feels like to fall from grace.

I play a curator, the most American part you can think of. My work is to protect the Declaration of Independence. I work at the National Archives in Washington.

In international or national crises, there are always questions of lack of confidence. You have to change the minds of the people in order to get results.

I don't mind anybody coming after me as long as they're coming with facts.

True repentance has a double aspect it looks upon things past with a weeping eye and upon the future with a watchful eye.

The Lone Ranger is going to be one of those iconic characters that never rides off into the sunset. We need heroes like him - an underdog who fights the good fight, doesn't kill, and has some serious mojo when the chips are down.

I think once you've finished a movie you really have to detach from it so that you can come back and watch it as an audience member.

You should respect each other and refrain from disputes you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together