Never revisit the past, that's dangerous. You know, move on.

Ideas aren't real estate, they grow collectively and that knocks out the egotistical loneliness that generally infects art.

I guess the optimistic thing is that those people in Congress who are climate deniers, I think their time has run out.

Part of me is drawn to the nature of sadness because I think life is sad, and sadness is not something that should be avoided or denied. It's a fact of life, like contradictions are.

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

If you can do more, you should.

There's a lot of money to be made by strip-mining and drilling the dirtiest oil on the planet. But why should the rest of us pay the price?