We need to elect leaders who understand that leadership is about loving and serving people, not about self-advancement.

Be careful about gossiping because loose lips really do sink ships.

Why don't we scale up those things that do work.

The City of Angels is a microcosm of the world, and so living in L.A. makes me feel like a citizen of the world.

Sometimes even your friends don't understand your calling, your purpose, your vocation. But you have to stand in your truth anyway, and they will eventually come around to understanding you, if you do it lovingly.

Struggling to stay in the middle class, and I love that. That's me and my dad and my family.

I feel like I've been successful after being done with the film is when I see it, if I'm embarrassed, if I'm slightly mortified, and if I feel super-vulnerable, I think I did something.