I really don't have a lot of interest in national politics, and it's because I'm a skeptic. I think you can accomplish a lot more locally. I don't want to spin the wheels and not get anything done.

Any time is a good time to start a company.

As a founder you have to build a team some day, so why not start the day you found the company?

You don't need a business plan. You don't need to have an MBA. All you need is a great idea. Anything is possible and you can accomplish it.

Now the tech community is popping up and saying, 'We do need to be involved in our surroundings.'

Have a huge work ethic, be ambitious, aggressive, tough.

By working to ensure we live in a society that prioritizes public safety, education, and innovation, entrepreneurship can thrive and create a better world for all of us to live in.

Entrepreneurs, because they need money, they are willing to share their crystal ball with someone like me. That's the best thing ever.

As the tech industry continues to grow and sprout successful startups across the country, it is important that we understand our responsibility to affect positive change in our communities.

I never said I enjoy anything about using the Internet. I enjoy helping the entrepreneurs who are building this thing that I don't necessarily like or use.

I think for technology and innovation we have to ignore politics.

The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.

I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.

Writing must certainly be one of the hardest professions - writing and painting.

Every movie I make teaches me something. That's why I keep making them.

The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves.

You know everyone loves to be the villain.

Let me just say that while I personally am very fond of John Boehner, his record of predicting what would happen if certain policies, economic policies were instituted is abysmal, okay?

The last thing we need is yet another makeup company. Even I have a nervous breakdown when I go through the department store makeup floor.

I've made more movies than anybody now.

Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.