We're not going to fix government until we fix citizenship.

Are we just going to be a crowd of voices, or are we going to be a crowd of hands?

Government is supposed to be about how we do things together, and we can do that much more together if we use technology smartly right now.

Our ability to do great things with data will make a real difference in every aspect of our lives.

Government is like a vast ocean and politics is the six-inch layer on top.

We say that word [bureaucracy] with such contempt. But it's that contempt that keeps this thing that we own and we pay for as something that's working against us.

Now, a lot of people have given up on government. And if youre one of those people, I would ask that you reconsider, because things are changing. Politics is not changing; government is changing.

When one neighbor helps another, we strengthen our communities.

When there are more males in the industry to begin with, it just has a more male feel, and that pushes the girls away.

If you dont tolerate any risk, you can never innovate.

We have to make bureaucracy sexy.

Hurting people you love is the heaviest kind of regret.

I watch movies and sports. I can count on the fingers of my hand the number of times I have watched an hour show. I never watch a half-hour show, and I never watch myself.

If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That's the beginning of social protest.

While envisaging the destruction of imperialism, it is necessary to identify its head, which is no other than the United States of America.

When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.

It's actually meditative to sit in a character for an extended period of time, realizing what your relationship is to who you're playing and then letting go, just being there.

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

Two broken pieces making a whole.

If you're a kid at a secondary comprehensive in North London as I was in the seventies, prancing around doing acting and being a luvvie wasn't really a good idea for your personal security.

A lot of young directors, they're not confident; they're not open to the emotional level of the scene.