My life has included a study of Shakespeare and to me it's very natural, but I know that it's not always accessible to other people.

If I had created reality television I would have had a much greater influence, but then I would have had to KILL MYSELF.

Because it’s no longer enough to be a decent person. It’s no longer enough to shake our heads and make concerned grimaces at the news. True enlightened activism is the only thing that can save humanity from itself.

I wish more people would take the extraordinary talent they have and just let their id go because that's what we discovered. We discovered that the sillier we got, the more people believed that we were speaking from our hearts.

If you're someone who geniunally believes that women don't deserve or aren't as much as men, you're like the plague. On the big history chart, you're the plague....It's just pointless and deadly.

The problem is I want to do everything. I really love all of it, and I love every aspect of movie-making and storytelling, and I love television, I love the Internet. I wish I had time to do absolutely everything.

I believe we are the only sentient beings in the universe, and I believe that 500 years from now, we will still be the only sentient beings around.