Softening what is rigid in our hearts.
I'm interested in people who become culturally fluent. And when I meet young people I'm often amazed they don't quite seem to have a sense of where they're from. They're like the citizens of the airport.
Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.
Time moves in one direction, memory in another.
The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.
I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.
People who feel safer with a gun than with guaranteed medical insurance don't yet have a fully adult concept of scary.
Since ancient times, philosophers have maintained that to strive too hard for one's own happiness is self-defeating.
There's this script that my dad wrote that portrays my brother's life, and I don't want to bore you with the details, but there's something in that that's really great. I would love working with him. I don't know in what way, but if I need a coach next time I'm on the set, or to produce or make something, absolutely. He's one of the main reasons I am where I am today. His mentorship and guidance.
We [people] spend so much time feeling so small and less than and insignificant and diminished because we see ourselves through our own lens.
To say a person is a coward has no more meaning than to say he is lazy: It simply tells us that some vital potentiality is unrealized or blocked.