Actually, here is something I'm passionate about that, looking around me, seems like the world at large must not care about as much as I do: craft.

If you have a lot of fans, you have a powerful soapbox, but you still have to have something to say when you're on that soapbox if you want to make a real difference.

If some dude I'd never heard of managed to broadcast a platitude like that to the whole globe, I'd probably just feel like I was being spammed.

What puts me in a vulnerable state? Beauty, wonder, surprise, mystery. Stuff like that.

My best ideas almost always come from winding up in unexpected places and stumbling across things I never could have imagined in advance.

I'm very active in pushing for net neutrality and an open Internet. There are countless other causes I support personally and privately, but I try to keep my public activism fairly focused.

There's no hope of people paying attention to your music video if you don't let others use it.

I can have fairly crippling self-criticism. It doesn't really put me in a vulnerable state, I just get glum and intolerable, but it certainly is a vulnerability.

I like shooting things in single takes. You have to rely on the idea itself to carry the full weight; you're always watching the idea, not the filmmaking.

It's the good old paradox of democracy. We are individually pretty small drops in the bucket, but collectively we are all powerful.

Everyone loves the idea of internet fast enough that HD movies download in seconds, but if only the telecoms or their partners get to use the high speeds, it's not the internet: It's glorified cable.

Sometimes the hardest one to see . . .is the one standing right before you.

Treat time and money as though they are the same by using both resourcefully.

Without any reason or expectation, love someone today and feel the joy of life.

The saddest thing that can happen to a person is to find out their memories are lies.

What comfort there is in the skin of someone you love!

One can (not) learn from a fatal error.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

All this is, is a nine hundred dollar hammer.

The courage of New England was the courage of conscience. It did not rise to that insane and awful passion, the love of war for itself.

I've always find that Aussies and Vancouver-ites in general just have a similar kind of attitude.