Once you spend time with [the afflicted], you start recognizing them as individuals, as opposed to lumping them in with everybody else who might have those symptoms.

Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.

My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preached that the pen is mightier than a Molotov cocktail.

It's less about what you do and more about who you are doing it with.

Media used to be one way. Everyone else in the world just had to listen. Now the internet is allowing what used to be a monologue to become a dialogue. I think that's healthy.

If you're going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone.

The Sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all disappear.

The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.

If you know which way the current is going, you can use it to your advantage.

The Internet is allowing us to get back to what's really more natural, which is that storytelling is a shared thing. It's our natural way to be communal.

When I was Younger, I wanted to be something.Now, I just want to be younger.

Before, I just spewed whatever it was I thought about everything. I tend to be more contemplative now

Mistakes are a drag, because you get in the area of regret and self-pity.

It is simply unthinkable that we will ever again send overseas a great expeditionary force of armed men.

I only work with professionals. I don't mean at seminars, but in my business.

It is hope, not despair, that undoes us all.

There is one "right answer" to any question, and it is in the book to be read.

The only thing that matters is the theater!

Creative genius is a divinely bestowed gift which is the coronation of the few.

Give yourself completely to the one you call God. If you are not doing it you are wasting your time here.

I'll do what I can to promote the greater good. If you can harm one person to save 1,000, I'm gonna do it every f**king time.