Purpose

Our stories are ladders that make it easier for us to touch the stars. So climb and grab them. Keep climbing. Grab them.

At the core, none of us were meant to be common. We were born to be comets, darting across space and time — leaving our mark as we crash into everything.

Home is not where you are from. Home is where you are needed.

I hope you find that sense of mission. Don't turn away from what's painful. Examine it. Challenge it.

I am an infinite being with infinite possibilities.

Every day, wake up and say to yourself, this little light of mine, I'm going to let it shine.

The way we spend our days is the way we spend our lives.

Achievement is wonderful when you know why you're doing it, and when you don't know, it can be a terrible trap.

I learned early that my meaning had to be from the experience of making the film and the possibility of connecting with individuals, rather than the foremost trophies in my industry — financial and critical success.

To be or not to be is not the question. The vital question is how to be and how not to be.

When it comes to the arts, passion should always trump common sense. You aren't just following dreams, you're reaching for your destiny.

Cynicism is easy. Anyone can do it. Change is hard. That takes us.