Everything they teach in school is oriented so that they can test it to show that you know it, instead of taking note of the obvious, which is that people learn by doing what people want to do.

Humans are not ideally set up to understand logic; they are ideally set up to understand stories.

Learning happens when someone wants to learn, not when someone wants to teach.

In the end all we have...are stories and methods of finding and using those stories.

Interest is a terrible thing to waste.

Schools in the future will be judged less because of the credentials that they bestow, and more because of the experiences that they offer.

Learning is about failure and recovery from failure.

Education in a deepest sense has always been about doing rather than about knowing.

If a film has a social message, it is very important for me to know what the message is and how it's going to be delivered, but it's not something I look for all the time.

If young kids choose to have me as a role model...what I put out there is that it's not a perfect life and it's okay to make mistakes.

Delusional people tend to believe in what they're doing.

I would bet that the average teenager in this country has not used the word 'wisdom' in the past year

I'm not gonna try to defend, or undo what's been done. All I could say about whatever's been done, it's been done, and it's water under the bridge. I have no regrets of my life.

I love the fact that they [girls ]are into Superman and Green Lantern and Batman and everything, and they really do have all those toys as well, but I don't want all their role models to be men.

Others say that that's not good for the country [to resist Donald's Trump ] and that they should work with this new administration on policies.

Painting isn't made for the decoration of apartments; it is a weapon to be used offensively and defensively against the enemy.

At the end of the day, what actors really want to do is act a lot and not wait around in the trailer.