I'm lucky that a lot of my friends are in the entertainment industry.

I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working.

Natural gas has been sold as clean energy. But when the gas comes from fracturing bedrock with about five million gallons of toxic water per well, the word “clean” takes on a disturbingly Orwellian tone. Don’t be fooled. Fracking for shale gas is in truth dirty energy.

I feel that film is inevitably the medium of the future. It has been for years, decades, but more so now than ever.

Growing up, I fantasized about being a rock musician and that somehow it would be really easy. I didn't realize that it's so much work.

I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired.

I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart] of rock music.