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.

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.

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.

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.

No sin is beyond forgiveness.

A smile costs nothing.So don't waste it!

You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.

I don’t have time to worry about something as petty as what I look like.

I'm not trying to be something I ain't. That's right. I'm me.

Blue skies Smiling at me Nothing but blue skies Do I see

Try not to have idols: they are interchangeable and lead to a wantonness that is easily mistaken for love.

You have the power to take our country back.

Almost anyone who has ever attained any kind of public stature in his or her profession can expect sometimes to see a reflection in a cracked mirror.

To make a film, the final big collaborator that you have is the composer.