Social context and NOT individual abilities drives performance, success or failure of a team or a project.

Failure is not an option but it is constantly a possibility. You manage your success by managing both the technical and the social risk.

When you address and acknowledge unpleasant realities, your creativity begins to soar and you come up with apparently magical solutions to problems.

Expressing authentic appreciation doesn’t cost you anything and the outcomes are simply wonderful.

I was this 5-7 pudgy kid in high school... I wasn't a popular kid. I was an outcast.

I was a mess when the movie [Into the Forest] ended and I had to say goodbye. It was one of the hardest endings.

If I were an animal, I would be an eagle.

I do my best to not be on camera. I hate it.

He sighed heavily. "Girls are mean. At least faeries simply kill you if they don't want you around." He put a hand on the wall, leaning against it and tapping his foot impatiently.

You have to know what is right for you and go after it regardless of what others say.

I read Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, which I think will subsequently be recognized as one of the first great novels of the 21st century.

Marilyn Manson is simply too dangerous for Darien Lake.

Let us take from Nature only what we really need, and try to give back to some extent.

I have to play baseball to make me happy. I have to be an athlete. But when it's all said and done, I'll be a normal father. A normal-type house man.