I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry an inquiry I trust not merely speculative but of sufficient moment to inspire the pleasing hope of its becoming essentially beneficial to mankind.

The moment for action has arrived and I know that I can trust in you to save our country.

When you're playing the same dirty dozen night after night the moments that keep it fresh are those when you just let go and trust everyone.

I know it when I don't know it. Sometimes I know it when I don't think I know it. I need to trust myself in these moments these rare moments of self-doubt.

When you're an artist there's always a moment in your life when you think you're not inspired and instead of doing things and instead of travel and instead of falling in love you're just depressed so you don't move so you don't change. So you're not inspired.

At the moment I'm doing this space movie so I'm obsessed with physics and space travel. I know three months down the line it's gone. Then I'll be able to superficially say stuff about space.

Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory three minutes was the first time I put on scuba gear and dived on a coral reef. It's just the unbelievable fact that you can move in three dimensions.

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality vulnerability mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.