“I don’t like putting people on a pedestal, I think ideas are more exciting.”

I’m a filmmaker, I’m a storyteller, an entertainer, if you will, so what can I do to participate?

I use music really as a form of raw expression; escape from the real world.

In the new music landscape, with is the democratization of the internet and music in general.

It’s what we live for, to be able to make great illusions.

Understanding that which is foreign to you is fundamental to cultivating a sense of connection and unity with one another.

The problem with modern consumption and mass-produced products is they’re designed to just literally be shoved into our mouths and rushed.

Happiness doesn’t come from commercial success but from the quality of work that you give back to your immediate community.

I am happy to have success in the entertainment biz,

We can’t be naive and think we can go it alone.

Certainly, we need government and legislation, but the governments really listen to people.

because, you know, democracy has been “the worst of all political systems except for all the rest.”

We are ultimately trying to accomplish the same thing, which is survival and the thriving of a better world.

You ask any actor – they’ll tell you they’d rather shoot on location because you don’t have to invent the energy, the energy is there.

I can play a lot of things, but I haven’t mastered any one.

The thing about ‘Entourage’ is everything we do is realistic.

Tabloids can be fun.

The normal press cycle is to put a company on a pedestal and then knock it down. It’s much more interesting that way.

I cannot pretend to do sculpture and make a woman the ridiculous pedestal of my pretensions. To render clothing poetic, yes–but one must preserve its dignity as clothing.

I’m not better than anyone else. I’m not supposed to be on a pedestal. I’ve always stayed away from that.

If we can take young people who excel at the highest levels, put them on the same kind of pedestal as the all-state basketball player and the all-state football player, and begin to get the same kind of recognition, it will have a profound effect, and we are finding that it does.

I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.