Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that involves apathy, greed and hierarchy.

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.

As humans, we are all insecure to a certain degree, and we don't want to risk looking stupid, being rejected, or feeling awkward.

The astounding natural beauty of the USA is offset by its extremely poor social security system that is clearly apparent when driving around the country.

I need fiction like you need to eat or exercise.

Leadership is influencing a community to follow Jesus.

Everyone who went to college and especially people working in media seem to know at least one person from Shaker Heights. There's just something about that place that made people go to the coast.

If your hair has never given you any trouble, if you've never had huge fights with your mother about it, then you might not have a story to tell. But I think most people do.

We need to listen more, to hear the silence and live in it.

Positivity helps produce better results.

Having authority implies accountability. If you reject the blame for failures under your watch, people reject your leadership.

Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation.