As a director/writer/producer, all you ever want is to work with actors who make you look better, who make the work you do seem as good as it can be and even better than it is.

There isn't any way for the people of Nicaragua to find out what's going on in Nicaragua.

I consider myself a bassist first.

Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.

We used to have more references to things that we pulled out because they almost felt like they were trying too hard to allude to something.

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.

If you are in a bad relationship with anyone else, it is because you are in a bad relationship with yourself.

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

Mystery is more important than knowledge.

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.

Deliberate often - decide once.

Worry is a form of fear.

A man would rather say evil of himself than say nothing.

I begin my day online and end my day online. I like to prepare myself for the next day and have a sense of closure before I go to bed.

his snores sounded like ducks mating.

Conquering others takes force, conquering yourself is true strength.

I'm not a happy-ending person. I want to know what happens once Cinderella rides off with Prince Charming.

Someone like myself, who claimed to be a real madman, living and organized with a Pythagorean precision.

Rihanna, Beyonce and Nicki Minaj - we may not win, but we would have a lot of fun [in 4x400m relay team].