That's what great art does - it inspires other artists to do great art, and that's what it should do.

The best stories infuse wonder.

There's nothing that you like in this world that wasn't influenced by a bunch of key things; nothing came completely clean out of a vacuum.

We all fall into our habits, our routines, our ruts. They're used quite often, consciously or unconsciously, to avoid living, to avoid doing the messy part of having relationships with other people, of dealing with a person next to us. That's why we can all be in a room on our cell phones and not have to deal with one another.

I'm twice as funny, I'm twice as smart, I'm twice as whatever when I'm around other people that challenge me.

In storytelling, the audience actually wants to work for their meal, they just don't want to know that they're doing it.

I think in the future we might see things arrive the way Prince announces a concert where a few days before the show he announces it and tickets just go up. You might see that with movies and other things.