“It’s sort of a combination between that and having the foundation that my mother gave me.”

I enjoy pumping iron, but I do try and get the yoga, ’cause it’s a nice balance to the weightlifting.

The problem to me with environmentalism is the idea that we’re all gonna die and we need to save ourselves.

Celebrities become divas because they get pampered so much, babied so much – then they get used to it.

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.

We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.

There is a difference between admitting and confessing. Admitting involves softening, making excuses for things that cannot be excused; confessing just names the crimes at its full severity.

In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.

There is such a difference between life and theory.

There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir? and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney.

All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers.

Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.

A calendar, you have to calculate how much time has passed between you and the facts, the emotions to be narrated.