People have been so busy relating to how I look, it's a miracle I didn't become a self-conscious blob of protoplasm.

Once you leave Sundance suddenly you run into bulldozers and concrete and cranes, and all that heritage that the Mormon culture used to be so proud of is turned into out of control develpoment.

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

The mainstream usually follows trends, it seldom sets them except for a few films.

Success is a tricky mistress. It's nice to have but it's a tricky thing to embrace.

Journalism has changed tremendously because of the democratization of information. Anybody can put something up on the Internet. It's harder and harder to find what the truth is.

...if our humanity - our soul as a society - is overtaken by the materiel and cosmetic, there will be no hope of peace.