A boy is a magical creature - you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart.

It turns out that home is not mostly a place. Home is someone putting her arms around you and saying the words your heart longs to hear: always and everywhere.

A Maddox boy will take you all the way to the edge, but if you go with him, he’ll follow you anywhere…

Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art.

Suffering for your art is most definitely overrated but I do get a certain, I don't know, satisfaction from being able to deal with my paranoia and insecurity.

Develop a clean line of action for your leading character

Pretty much all I say politically is I encourage people to register to vote.

Americans tend not to distinguish between political rhetoric and real intentions, which can lead to great misunderstanding.

Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think.

My mother's from Texas. Small town outside of Waco called Downsville. And my father's from Nigeria. And so I guess I'm properly African-American.

What’s your cause? Does it move you to tears? What is it that moves you passionately?