I can't just react on the strength of an email and three pages of synopsis and say I'm going to take off for three months of my life.

As athletes we're used to reacting quickly. Here it's 'come stop come stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest part of the day.

Realizing our society as it is without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it and being humane toward that society that is all that we're sure of.

American society is a sort of flat fresh-water pond which absorbs silently without reaction anything which is thrown into it.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.

The violent reaction on the recent development of modern physics can only be understood when one realises that here the foundations of physics have started moving and that this motion has caused the feeling that the ground would be cut from science.

I just want real reactions. I want people to laugh from the gut be sad from the gut - or get angry from the gut.

The thing you can't let go of is gravity. The reality of gravity in writing. If someone says something really mean in a sitcom and the next wave isn't a reaction to the reality of that you start losing relatability. In a lot of romantic comedies they throw out the rules of life.

What I'd say about that is that we must respect homosexuals in the church. I've got many homosexual friends the issue is not in any way a homophobic reaction on my part.