Brian De Palma

And I always had this idea for making a movie about a femme fatale, because I like these characters. They're a lot of fun, they're sexy, they're manipulative, they're dangerous.

However, ironically, I was baptized Presbyterian, and went to a Quaker school for twelve years.

You really are as hot as your last movie. And it goes away really quickly.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years.