All these experiments I've done over the years with technology have been asking whether I can tell stories that affect humans in a deeper way than I could without the technology.

For some reason, humans have this funny thing about where we came from - it always has far more emotional weight than where we are.

My real motivation came from my desire for music videos to have the same equal soul-touching emotional resonance that straight music does.

I didn't realize how slow my four-year-old MacBook was until the web team wanted to start using it as the benchmark for a slow computer experience.

Music scores your life. You interact with it. It becomes the soundtrack to that one summer with that one girl.

Music videos are very concrete and rigid. They don't allow for emotional interaction.

As a filmmaker, you are constantly having the discussion with your team about whether something is "relatable".

In virtual reality, we're placing the viewer inside a moment or a story... made possible by sound and visual technology that's actually tricking the brain into believing it's somewhere else.

Virtual reality is a technology that could actually allow you to connect on a real human level, soul-to-soul, regardless of where you are in the world.

There are thousands of other women to choose from. You understand me? And this court runs on ambition alone.

He concluded that governments were like wars: the reasons and the forces might change, but it was still the same dying over the same soil.

I feel like shredded paper thrown to the wind, each poet took a piece of me and wrote a word or phrase...

If the general public demanded better, they'd get better, because the market­place responds to the public's needs and desires.

Under Bill Clinton we had a roaring economy that looked really good.

You can lose yourself in repetition—quiet your thoughts; I learned the value of this at a very young age.

The employment of children is doing more to fill prisons, insane asylums, almshouses, reformatories, slums, and gin shops than all the efforts of reformers are doing to improve society.

In a war, you do whatever you have to do.

Don't focus on what I'm wearing. Focus on what's coming out of my face.

You did something because it had always been done, and the explanation was, ‘But we’ve always done it this way.’ A million dead people can’t have been wrong, can they?