As you grow older, you change.

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.

Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. Let the learning continue.

As a child I had terrible asthma.

More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

I love movies - it's my whole life, and that's it.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

Always stay open to surprise.

I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.

pain demands to be felt..

Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.

The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It's our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows.

I think I've tried to stay true to my music since the beginning. It's kind of hard because of the access and technology but I just do what I do.

Acquaintance lessens fame.

What we often fail to recognize is how efficient a vegan diet is. Less land, less water, more food for our spiraling population.

The morality of an act is a function of the state of the system at the time it is performed.

I think it's fair to say that Nina Simone was a prodigy.

Every young person needs some adult who's just wild and crazy about them!

Not everyone coming to you with a problem wants a solution. They are attached to the attention it brings them.