If you could ever do a project that really has magic in it, and justifiable magic, you should do it.

I can't think of anything outside of having the gift yourself and creating yourself. I can't think of the next better thing to do than being able to put it back. Creative expression, I think, is vital to the success of any society.... A society without art will die.

People are finally able to look around and say, 'I can see the drought, I can see the rising sea levels, I can see the crops dying. Okay, now I get it.' It is finally beginning to sink in that there has been a lot of damage.

I don't think about when it's going to stop and what you do before it stops. You just keep moving.

There's a lot of hyperventilation that takes off before the [Sundance Film] Festival, a lot of buzz. Every year we hear, this is going to be the new this, this is going to be the new that, and it never is. The buzz just doesn't mean anything. I'm glad it doesn't. Because I think the festival shows that what succeeds is content.

Because, you know, you're in Utah. And because of its political conservatism, if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.

San Franciscans are very proud of their city, and they should be. It’s the most beautiful place in the world.