The arc of our history is toward more equality being expanded to more and more people.

I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people.

Our differences in beliefs do not truly separate us, or elevate us over others. Rather, they highlight the rich tapestry that is humanity.

If you have to make laws to hurt a group of people just to prove your morals and faith, then you have no true morals or faith to prove.

You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.

We should indeed keep calm in the face of difference, and live our lives in a state of inclusion and wonder at the diversity of humanity.

It’s really hard to hate someone for being different when you’re too busy laughing together.

The only thing worse than human ignorance is human pride in that ignorance.

The starship Enterprise was a metaphor starship Earth, and the vision was that the strength of this starship lay in its diversity.

You know, when a man is raped you never hear about what he was wearing.

And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.

Service to the humanity is the source of joy and happiness. It is the rent you pay for living on this beautiful planet.

We, writers & poets, have a big problem. We swim too deep inside life, also in shallow waters, and then we end touching the sand!

Music is the reason I'm doing movies; I do credit that. But acting is an escape route for me.

I think that if you're passionate about something and you're driven and you're focused, then you can pretty much do anything that you want to do in life.

Remember, all of man's happiness is in the little valleys. Tiny little ones. Small enough to call from one side to the other.

Man makes religion, religion does not make man

The only people who don't have problems are in a cemetery.

Even in traditional filmmaking, you're always trying to find novel ways of telling stories, and this is different.

Skateboarding is forever, and things like college and girls only ruin an endlessly savored adolescence.

The problem ain't what people know. It's what people know that ain't so that's the problem.