Being a good rapper is hard to do. I'm a good Rapaport, but that's about it.

Right now I'm taking a break from hip-hop documentaries. But I would do it if things lined up.

A Tribe Called Quest music was so inclusive, so conscious, it brought such a community together.

Only a genius can play a fool.

I had a boom box, but I didn't go too far with it because I had a really, really big one. It was like the size of a suitcase, and I was just a little kid.

I don't think the subject of a documentary film should be producers on it.

When I was a kid, my first favorite song was probably Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side."

My freestyling ability is nonexistent. I can't even write a verse if I tried to sit anywhere and write one. Being a good rapper is hard to do. I'm a good Rapaport, but that's about it.

Call it stubborn, call it ignorant, call it what you want, but I don't think I have to join a particular faith or culture or creed or religion just to fit in.

Positive doesn't mean unflawed: It means human and vulnerable. If you make a film and you're portraying the subject with respect, you're gonna do it in an honest way.

When you're playing this bad of a character, it's obviously not reality for someone who's not living that life.

Laser beams slid around them, spurts of light sinking through the darkness, eventually touching the stars or lighting the water for a moment on their death ride to the murky bottom.

Too much Oil, gonna spoil YA!(There Will Be Blood 2007 - Movie)

The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does.

We do not start as dust. We do not end as dust. We make more than dust. That's all we ask of you. Make more than dust.

Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.

It was always so important to my dad for us to understand about the Genocide and to know about our family history.

My religion is to live and die without regret.

Prostitution, black marketeering, and informing on ones neighbors and friends all had such a deep-rooted tradition in Romania that there was a charming naturalness and innocence about it.

I love nature but against my better judgment.

Why, thou deboshed fish thou...Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being but half a fish and half a monster?