If we listen to the better angels of our nature, there are creative and good solutions to serious problems.

You will never solve poverty without solving water and sanitation.

Now I feel I have an unspoken deal with the paparazzi: 'I won't do anything publicly interesting if you agree not to follow me.'

I think what's important for kids to know is that your decisions here on earth matter, your behavior matters and how you treat other people matters.

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day.

My wife is my soul mate. I can't imagine being without her.

I'm always cautious about overstepping any boundaries. At the end of the day, it's a director's medium, and if they don't want to hear from me I just step back.

Sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage

If you can't help people, then what is the point of being successful?

It's just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants.

Please find out what you can do to make a difference. Take five minutes to educate yourself on an issue you didn't know about before. Then tell somebody else.

The process of breaking down fear was always my greatest challenge and it was made easier by the careful work and gentle voices of my female workers.

A very disappointing outcome is always destined to happen to anyone who chases material things in search of happiness.

Adolescence is like cactus.

To imagine the world without gods and religion is reasonable enough; to imagine mankind without them is an entirely different matter.

I do some of my best reading while seated in the bathroom.

I like shitty strip clubs. They look like what they are. I know what to expect. Unlike Congress, at least we know everybody is for sale.

Industry suffers from the managerial dogma that for the sake of stability and continuity, the company should be independent of the competence of individual employees.

I get to play a lot of hysterics.

Dan watched in awe. "I didn't know you talk Turkey." "I speak Turkish.

Because the state necessarily commits aggression, the consistent libertarian, in opposing aggression, is also an anarchist.