You can mythologize Steve Jobs, but really in the end, he was a kid from the Valley, with his funny little friends, and they made something. That's all he was.

Doing a movie about computers between 1978 and 1982? You cant get much less sexy, less active than that.

So the fact that the first movie about Steve Jobs was made by a guy who was completely entrepreneurial and outside the film industry, I think is very appropriate.

People are out there looking for jobs and realizing that they have to look within to do and create what the new and next thing will be. They can't rely anymore on what was usually given to them.

As a director, you just have to kind of like just get through the first project before starting on the next one.

It plumps up your thinker and fills up your heart. And where you end up is not where you start.

You will touch this joy and you will suddenly know it is what you were looking for your whole life, but you were afraid to even acknowledge the absence because the hunger for it was so encompassing.

Patriotism demands the ability to feel shame as much as to feel pride.

we have let rhetoric do the job of poetry.

I don't necessarily think I look to books for ideas, but sometimes when I'm in the process of reading a great book, I just think about it all of the time.

I still get very high and very low in life. Daily. But I've finally accepted the fact that sensitive is just how I was made, that I don't have to hide it and I don't have to fix it. I'm not broken.

To insist on living until we die may be one of life's greatest virtues.

Music is a simulation of something, but language is the greatest thing we possess.

I believe in everything - a little bit.

Countries have lost their culture because what they wanted was money. Money became the running theme in every country and culture was sacrificed.