Every single substitute teacher growing up could not pronounce my name, so whenever someone pauses, I'm like, 'Oh, that's me.'

There's nothing better than finishing something and looking at it. Whether it be a script or a movie, it's this complete little thing that now exists and is hopefully immortal.

It's an important part of being a member of society to know what's happening in the world and to know where you fall in it and what you can do about it.

When you know you have a certain amount of work to finish, you just don't allow yourself to get sick again.

I've been wanting to make a movie about the war in Sierra Leone, specifically, for more than 15 years.

Collaboration sometimes causes conflict, and sometimes it's easy, but the bringing together of great minds only adds.

If you really want to tell someone you love them, you don't just go and blurt it out. There's a dance. And your movie does that.

I do want to direct a movie from horseback one day.

You only have so much time in life so everything you do needs to mean something to you.

You're always against the clock. But really just fighting for quality.

The apartments are made for eels.

I have discovered that some people are wealthier than others not because of their superior intelligence but because of their abundant mindset.

Those of us in the first American generations have had to figure out how the invisible world the emigrants built around our childhoods fits in solid America.

The best brought-up children are those who have seen their parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the parents' first duty.

I do have a relationship with Putin, and I can tell you that he's very interested in what we're doing here today.

Everyone have power of brain but people don't know correctly time of usage. winner just know when, where & how to usage it.

No one but me can save myself though its too late, death greets me warm, now i will just say goodbye.

I wish I had a better metabolism. But someone else probably wishes they could walk into a room and make friends with everyone like I can. You always want what someone else has.

Whatever the evolutionary basis of religion, the xenophobia it now generates is clearly maladaptive.

Something about the topic of consciousness makes people, like the White Queen in Through The Looking Glass, believe six impossible things before breakfast.

Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego.