If you have a lot of fans, you have a powerful soapbox, but you still have to have something to say when you're on that soapbox if you want to make a….

A lot of things get made this way: someone imagines what they want to make, then very carefully plans every step of the process, then sets about maki….

My best ideas almost always come from winding up in unexpected places and stumbling across things I never could have imagined in advance..

For me, it works best to plan just enough to come up with a good direction to head out in. Then I start down the path as soon as I can, without a ver….

I'm very active in pushing for net neutrality and an open Internet. There are countless other causes I support personally and privately, but I try to….

If some dude I'd never heard of managed to broadcast a platitude like that to the whole globe, I'd probably just feel like I was being spammed..

There's no hope of people paying attention to your music video if you don't let others use it..

I can't stand things that are poorly made or shoddily conceived. I feel like I'm being insulted when something is poorly designed, poorly made. It's ….

What puts me in a vulnerable state? Beauty, wonder, surprise, mystery. Stuff like that..

I can have fairly crippling self-criticism. It doesn't really put me in a vulnerable state, I just get glum and intolerable, but it certainly is a vu….

What we did is we went on those parabolic flights, which people like to call the vomit comet. Basically, the plane throws you up into the air and cat….

Everyone loves the idea of internet fast enough that HD movies download in seconds, but if only the telecoms or their partners get to use the high sp….

I'm passionate about music, food, books, film, blah, blah. The same things everyone is passionate about, no? Love, sex, connection. Peace. Not f - - ….

I like shooting things in single takes. You have to rely on the idea itself to carry the full weight; you're always watching the idea, not the filmma….

It's the good old paradox of democracy. We are individually pretty small drops in the bucket, but collectively we are all powerful..

David Foster Wallace is a big idol of mine. His writing is so clear that for years I'd read him and think, My God, he is actually writing the way I t….

I think that artists and musicians can do as much harm as good for causes if they tie their names to lots of things, especially if they aren't really….

Actually, here is something I'm passionate about that, looking around me, seems like the world at large must not care about as much as I do: craft..

I will say that the lead cosmonaut trainer - I mean, we were working with professional cosmonaut trainers outside of Moscow. And the lead one, at the….

I can't imagine everyone on the planet would want to hear something from me. If I thought they'd listen, I'd probably ask them to try to be nicer to ….