"I want to make movies about my country from my point of view."

"I don't think I would describe my sense of humor. Doesn't sound like the kind of thing I'd do."

"My home town is very small and very remote and we don't have a movie house."

"What appeals to me? There are things, points of view, uses of the language, habits of dress, ways of thought and believing that came to me from my grandparents and came to them from theirs. Things that are of good use in any situation, no matter what the future may hold."

"Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved."

"About half my work in education is U.S. political reform around school districts and charter schools, and creating more room for entrepreneurial organizations to develop. And about half on technology, which I look at as a global platform."

"Comics are so full of amazing work. And I can't look at a drawing of a woman without thinking of, for instance, Wallace Wood and his amazing way of capturing beauty."

"Actually, I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psychology, where people are studying the relationship of consciousness to neural and cognitive processes without really trying to reduce it to those processes."