I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.
Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.
The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life.
One week before Pitfall! was to be released, I only gave you one life to play the whole game. I was experimenting with that concept as sort of the ultimate challenge.
My job is to interpret the law based on how the legislature and the court has done it and then, of course, to use our system of justice to develop some new legal tools and new concepts.
In particular, I'm drawn to the stories that have big, high concepts and real characters at their heart. And I love where those two worlds meet, and 'Edge of Tomorrow' is the perfect canvas to explore that.
People are really interested in the concept of eternal youth in this plastic-surgery culture.
If you think about the concept of reincarnation, it's essentially uploading yourself and your spirit into a new form, a new hard drive as it were.
When you remove the concept of reward and punishment on merit, the result is the utter destruction of social fabric.
Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
Ethnic-based politics is being used to exhort people, to serve own ends - this is anathema to concept of nationalism.
YouTube is found footage. It's here to stay, and people will always come up with new concepts that will make sense for found footage.
The latest twist on the pampering concept is spa parties, where a group of friends take over an entire spa.
I just have a real problem with people who seek to portray fatness or thinness as moral concepts.
I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.
Professional learning does not advance… through the inexorable confirmation of previous certainties, but through a systematic challenge to our present conceptions
Usually when you're doing concepts for a character, you just try a couple different things to see what sticks.
Separation and devolution are two completely different concepts which cannot be mixed together. One is not a stop on the way to the other.
Here we encounter two conflicting concepts with which we must come to grips in our time: the idea of national solidarity and the idea of international cooperation.
John Smith: When your life is defined by a single action, it changes the concept of time.
Christof: I'm determined that television's first on-air conception still take place.
