And as a filmmaker, I'm trying to unhook myself from this idea that unless you have a brilliant, long, enormously lucrative theatrical run, that your movie somehow failed. And I don't believe that.

I like movies that are about real people in real time with real problems.

It really shocks me when I encounter people who think kindness doesn't matter. Because I think it's pretty much the only thing that matters.

In college, you're kind of designing who you want to be. And I wanted to be a big reader.

I kicked college nostalgia in my late 20s. As much as I loved college and treasure the memories, I no longer want to go back.

I care about reading, a lot. It's a big part of my life.

Even though I occasionally appear on it, I don't watch television.

Kindness is not about instant gratification. More often, it's akin to a low-risk investment that appreciates steadily over time.

Film allows me to ask some really big questions with the time to explore them deeply. I love the form.

I actually have a thing about proper nouns. They clang on my ear in a weird way when I hear them dropped into movies.

All of the things I used to obsess over, I'm no longer as obsessed with. I have new concerns but they're a little more existential or cosmic.

Lying in small doses makes a good storyteller great.

Take one day at a time and be aware that every moment and interaction serves a purpose. We are here to learn, love, and share.

If there's anything worth any risk at all, it's got to be love, right?

God is bigger than people think.

He who seeks freedom for anything but freedom's self is made to be a slave.

Thought is invisible nature.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

When we report stories, we don't just want to talk to people who did the right thing. We want to talk to people who did the wrong thing.

Steve Jobs was not only the heart and soul of Apple, he was the wind underneath the technology market. Both are significantly diminished by his passing.

But He is risen, a later star of dawn.