I started really young, like 12 or 13, and then I started doing school plays. We had a really good drama department, so the kind of drama-geek stigma wasn't really there in my high school.

You will never solve poverty without solving water and sanitation.

Now I feel I have an unspoken deal with the paparazzi: 'I won't do anything publicly interesting if you agree not to follow me.'

I think what's important for kids to know is that your decisions here on earth matter, your behavior matters and how you treat other people matters.

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day.

My wife is my soul mate. I can't imagine being without her.

I'm always cautious about overstepping any boundaries. At the end of the day, it's a director's medium, and if they don't want to hear from me I just step back.

Sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage

If you can't help people, then what is the point of being successful?

It's just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants.

Please find out what you can do to make a difference. Take five minutes to educate yourself on an issue you didn't know about before. Then tell somebody else.

It would be fun to do a reunion show. I hope we do it some day, but it better be soon. We're all getting on.

I've been pretty fortunate.

We have to confront the reality of our world, and make the hard decisions about which way we want to move forward.

Censoring what you say is one of the ways in which people who are not nice can take away your personal freedom.

The goal is to provide inspiring information that moves people to action.

Nothing's perfect along the way [in life], and you ride the ups and downs. It's how you come out of those and continue on that I guess really matters.

I'd be happy to provide advice if anybody asked me no matter who the President is.

Security is a false God. Begin to make sacrifices to it and you are lost.

Say "thank you" when you're grateful and "sorry" when you're wrong.

It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper.