By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director.

Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago, back in the stone age.

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.

I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.

Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.

Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem.

Privacy above all else. Some day, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was.

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.

Impulsivity is something akin to spontaneously jumping out of an airplane and not realizing that you forgot something until about five seconds before impact.

When you unfold your spirit, you unfold your dream.

If you can't solve a problem, make it bigger.

Hip-hop is about the human condition; it's about people's lives.

I guess art is in the eye of the beholder.

If you can find one thing in your life that can keep you in the moment, you're totally lucky.

You know, my daughters have been through their entire lives and knowing about my case.

Making movies is eating candy. It's a very expensive candy, so you value when you can do it. So when you can do it twice at once, it's like, you know, a kid in a candy store!

The major way to conquer fear is to make a decision.

When the Lord's white sheep become dirty gray, all black sheep feel more comfortable.