I went into prison thinking that it was my job to inspire these women, but what it turns out to be is that these women are inspiring me to get out of my prison.

I felt like the whole world had just opened up before me and that everything was locked into place inside me.

I was in this windowless classroom, down a windowless hallway, I had walked through four heavy steel doors that buzzed open and closed, yet I felt liberated.

I had a huge awakening. I was looking at this grown woman in dark blue prison scrubs, these convicted criminals, villains, that I had a bias against, and thought, this is about multiple generations of a family in crisis. This problem is so much bigger than I initially understood.

In preparing this talk, I've come face to face with my prison.

If you appeal to the mind, hearts will follow.

The computer is a bit of a prison.

Creativity is all about a free mind.

Where does creative freedom come from?

I believe the most valuable things in life are people and time you spend with them.

The most valuable part of learning through experience is not actually the experience, it's reflection. It's taking the time to see how you've changed and how you grew.

For us to know freedom, we must know constraints.

In a room full of privilege, what does freedom look like?

Understanding the limitations of who I am helps put me on the path for what I'm made to do and how I'm made to do it.

Find that person that inspires you.

It's really important to have those people in your life who push you to be better, different.

The more connected you are to the work, the better it is.

Sometimes a milk mustache is just a milk mustache.

Everything, and I mean everything, is about strong, powerful women.

My criteria for failure is (...) did it involve facial tattoos? Did it involve viruses? Did it involve unwanted children or loss limbs? Unless it involves any of these 4 things, you're probably OK.

Of course, we are told that the killer drones are actually directed against terrorists. Simultaneously, the British government believes that the fact-finding journalists from The Guardian are terrorists.

Everybody in LA fails. We just do.

My friends who are very self-critical edit before they actually do anything. They assume that no matter what they do, it's not going to be good and so they don't even bother doing it.

We use words, we don’t hide.

We have to get over ourselves and put sex aside. Then you go ahead and make the best product you possibly can.