Alone we come and alone we leave. Verily! Love and care is just a pretence.

Success is not achieved in a vacuum: the people you spend most of your time with and the voices you allow to influence your thoughts play a significant part in your success or lack of it.

A well lived life means weathering a few storms. Our lessons don't come from sunny days on the beach, they come from copping a few waves on the head.

I studied acting in school and then of course couldn't get an acting job.

My neighborhood is fairly white, yet the local middle school is all black. It is bad. It is very bad.

Maybe Radiohead and R.E.M. Even a group like the National - artists who have crossed over without compromising. It's a special thing.

Art is really predicated upon the experiences that you've had in your life. You only have to share what you've consumed.

I would like to find a way to embrace what Led Zeppelin did, in filmmaking.

In my vision, the thing that man needs first and foremost is a meditative consciousness.

It isn't that the lies are too beautiful to resist. It's that the truth is too hideous to face.

The allure of Hollywood is huge when you don't know anything. You don't know the knives behind the smiles.