I have not walked away from Hollywood. I'm walking away from the way I personally did business in Hollywood. The budget of whatever movie I do needs to be efficient; it needs to consider what kind of resources we're using and how to be as responsible as possible.

Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done.

If you bounce a tennis ball against a wall it will come back to you the same way every time. But if you shift the wall a few degrees it will come back another way.

I don't have any interest in changing a system, because the system will simply get bucked back by people who haven't changed.

I think laughter is a sacred act.

Authenticity means to be the author of your own life.

Communism didn't work because people weren't ready for it, it was corrupt, and because it squelched individualism.