Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

I think we're doing a dreadful job of educating.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

We've gotta reinvest in space travel. We should've never left the moon.

Among tech-minded kids, I think Alan Turing was a tremendous inspiration. He was a guy that was so different than the people around him. He was an outsider in his own time, but because he was an outsider is precisely why he was able to accomplish things nobody thought was possible.

Rejection is a common occurrence. Learning that early and often will help you build up the tolerance and resistance to keep going and keep trying.

I was very inspired by Les Blank's film 'Burden of Dreams.' I think what's unique about his film and the two I've made is that they're close examinations of filmmakers and how their own emotional experiences reflect in the material they're rendering, and vice versa - how that material sometimes colors their own lives.

A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy.