Real life is not as simple as it is on a screen. I think real life is actually a lot more beautiful.

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.

Great leaders die empty. They live to offload everything they put in them! Don’t die with your books in your mind unpublished!

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.

I've worked with some great people [in Star Trek], and I was paid handsomely, and it was a nice role. So the whole experience was positive for me.

The one sure way to success is to know everything you can about what you do.

Something is going to have to happen. Not necessarily something big. Just something.

The culture is with some rapidity fearing its imagination. I don't know why. Imagination is not of interest.

When I was a young child my folks would ask me why I was rocking back and forth and I'd answer "cause of the music in my head!"

I am knowledgeable enough about the world of prizes to realize that there is a large degree of luck - both for the recognitions that you receive and those that you did not.

The TV generation is postliterate and retribalized. It seeks by violence to scrub the old private image and to merge in a new tribal identity, like any corporate executive.

The food you eat either makes you more healthy or less healthy. Those are your options.