You can't control everything that comes to you.

Unpopular speech is absolutely vital to the health of our nation.

I grow tired of intelligence having such a limited manifestation in movies - "intelligence" usually meaning coastal, with a certain level of formal education.

Practiced poorly, tourism can be extremely negative.

There are tens of thousands of charities and hundreds of thousands, getting towards millions, of people now using it. And when I flip through it, I'm just blown away by people.

Sometimes their oppression of emotion and the weird way it comes out is more interesting than painting it in bold primary colors.

When I think of my background, if I was privileged on any level, it was in terms of the kind of exposure to experience and bohe-mian cultural influence that my parents and my uncles and my grandfather gave me. On both sides I come from an extremely eccentric, artsy, intellectually intense, activist family.