“I wanted to be a filmmaker, so my parents helped me by encouraging me ...” — Zal Batmanglij Quote

“I wanted to be a filmmaker, so my parents helped me by encouraging me to save my allowance. So I bought my first video camera, and I would make movies, but I never made a movie that I finished until I was in college. There was no expectation, but I would make movies every day.”

“Sci-fi always appealed to me, like, since I was a kid.”

“I think if aliens came to Earth, we would laugh. If there was an alien technology, we would laugh.”

“Raising the personal allowance is massively expensive. For the same amount of money, you could look at reducing the rate of tax.”

“Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.”

“One of the things that concerned me was the way the system operated: the wife who went out to work got a full personal allowance, but the wife who was working at home got nothing. This was particularly hard on wives who gave up work for a time to bring up children.”