I think the theater work and the on-camera work feed off each other. My theater work has become more simple, and my on-camera work has become more energized or more spontaneous.

The bitterest truth is better than the sweetest lie.

A miracle is something that seems impossible but happens anyway.

My mom and my dad are ebullient people, and I think I carry that with me.

I love a sense of humor, I love intelligence, I love specificity, I love surprises. I'm inspired to get out of bed in the morning and fill my day with good things.

I've found in my own life, if you try to struggle against what the universe is telling you, you set yourself up for more of a battle.

To see those two characters [Steve Jobs and Andy Hertzfeld ] juxtaposed against each other shows an interesting dynamic of how gifted people might function differently in the world.

I love Seth Rogen's line in which he talks about how you can be both a genius and decent at the same time.

I'm always trying to remember that kindness goes a long, long way. I think that's something that people will definitely take out of this film as well.

Film, for me, has been a process of learning on the job.

Most of the people in New York are very often from somewhere else.

You can handle any problem by grace.

At the end of my life I want to say, “I lived every moment of it.

People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?

The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.

I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

Technology isn't the villain and the people aren't often really the villain so much as they're weak.

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

My hair is not really white; it's kind of grayish, and I don't like the color. So I make it totally white with Klorane dry shampoo. That is the best thing to do because my hair is always clean.

Time, the human dimension, which makes us everything we are.

When black men started bearing arms, these people who we think of as being pro-gun are saying, 'We ought to change this law.