There's no hope of people paying attention to your music video if you don't let others use it.

If you have a lot of fans, you have a powerful soapbox, but you still have to have something to say when you're on that soapbox if you want to make a real difference.

If some dude I'd never heard of managed to broadcast a platitude like that to the whole globe, I'd probably just feel like I was being spammed.

What puts me in a vulnerable state? Beauty, wonder, surprise, mystery. Stuff like that.

My best ideas almost always come from winding up in unexpected places and stumbling across things I never could have imagined in advance.

I'm very active in pushing for net neutrality and an open Internet. There are countless other causes I support personally and privately, but I try to keep my public activism fairly focused.

Actually, here is something I'm passionate about that, looking around me, seems like the world at large must not care about as much as I do: craft.

I can have fairly crippling self-criticism. It doesn't really put me in a vulnerable state, I just get glum and intolerable, but it certainly is a vulnerability.

I like shooting things in single takes. You have to rely on the idea itself to carry the full weight; you're always watching the idea, not the filmmaking.

It's the good old paradox of democracy. We are individually pretty small drops in the bucket, but collectively we are all powerful.

Everyone loves the idea of internet fast enough that HD movies download in seconds, but if only the telecoms or their partners get to use the high speeds, it's not the internet: It's glorified cable.

Art should make you think and feel. It doesn't have to match your couch.

Woman cannot survive on droplets, she requires waves to regularly crash over her shores as the moon gives way to the sun...

At the end of every light, is a tunnel of darkness.

People don't like it when you say real things.

Move it or lose it, lose it and you'll learn from it, but never give up.

The worth of a gift lies as much in the way it is offered as in its intrinsic value.

I do believe we slander Christ when we think we are to draw the people by something else but the preaching of Christ crucified.

Nothing is safe [in Lebanon], as simple as that.

It's a lot easier to write about people when you're not living with them!

Evaluate wins and losses objectively, focusing more on effort and execution than on the outcome of the game