But in a broader sense, when I have more control, I want to expose people to new ideas.

I have three sisters and I've always wanted a brother, so I was really interested in that notion.

Tarantino's stuff in its inception was all about finding a way for him to break into Hollywood.

My first film goes into production in October. It's called White Boy Shuffle and it's based on a novel about a young black kid and it's sort of reminiscent of Catcher in the Rye.

The ultimate 20-year plan is to be living in the Caribbean, writing, living off the land, eating from the ocean and probably smoking herb.

Where you raise your children isn't as important as how you raise your children.

The idea of doing something that you've seen a thousand times before doesn't appeal to me.

It's nice that people want to compliment you in some superficial way, but I've never considered that that's how I might be categorized. I guess it's better than being called ugly.

My sisters are my favorite people on earth.

A film goes through so many hands, that by the time it's done, it might not resemble what you thought you were making.

Granted, there are times when, for business reasons, you do something that's more mainstream. But even then, I try to find something that has a dark or subversive aspect.

Without an abundance of hope and happiness, it will be difficult to accumulate an abundance of wealth.

Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better.

When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.

Slowly, my brain let me in on the fact that I had just come this close to dying.

I hope that I have accomplished just one thing: that I have been a credit to tennis and my country.

I hate to do what I'm told, that's why I'm not good at 9-to-5s.

Americans have started a lot of projects around the world and I am one of them.

Everybody in the world is talking about Canada…outside of the US, there is probably no country in the world that is producing more blue-chip young basketball talent than Canada.

Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.

I did a lot of student acting when I was young.