"The magic of cinema lies in its ability to transform reality."

The story is a machine for empathy. In contrast to logic or reason, a story is about emotion which is encoded in the details.

The act of writing is an act of resistance against forgetting.

The best leaders listen more than they speak.

The present state of the system of nature is evidently a consequence of what it was in the preceding moment, and if we conceive of an intelligence which at a given instant comprehends all the relations of the entities of this universe, it could state the respective positions, motions, and general effects of all these entities at any time in the past or future.

世界是一个谜，我们都是侦探。