I do think film can change culture, in a way that reading a story in the New York Times does not.

There's a leadership gap in the modern business world. Young professionals need to step up to the challenge.

I didn't take a single business class. I learned on the job.

We have to shine a bright light on horrific moments in society if we're going to create a better world for our children.

What is exciting today is that with technology filmmaking has been democratized, and so many more people have access to making a film.

Always work and take productive actions, do not rely on prayers and fasting alone

You figured that the only way I'd be happy is if I did the things you thought would be best for me.

When you have the means and information to cure a disease and don't . . . you are the disease.

If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs.

New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur.

I can't let them see my doubts, or the wounds they've inflicted on me.

Digiphrenia”—the way our media and technologies encourage us to be in more than one place at the same time.

Status symbols are poor excuses for values.

No one else, ever, will think you're great the way your mother does.

As for organs, traits, etc., being "for" something, the notion may be a useful shorthand, but shouldn't be taken too seriously, if only because of the ubiquitous phenomenon of exaptation.