For certain things, certain audiences, people will laugh. And in other places, there's dead silence. And I enjoy them both. You try to make films where it's never one way - like life.

I never cared so much about making perfect sense. I wanted to make perfect nonsense.

Life is beautiful. Really, it is. Full of beauty and illusions. Life is great. Without it, you'd be dead.

After 100 years, films should be getting really complicated. The novel has been reborn about 400 times, but it's like cinema is stuck in the birth canal.

I have no desire for any type of introspection at all. I don't ever ask myself any questions. I don't want answers.

A scientist shouldn't be asked to judge the economic and moral value of his work. All we should ask the scientist to do is find the truth and then not keep it from anyone.

Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.

Gucci Mane is trap rap's Frank Sinatra.

What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.

Everything has to have some kind of a point for people to breathe easy. What's the point of life? I have no clue, but sometimes there are things that just attract us and pull us in a certain way.

I like working with family and friends and people I admire. All my movies are filled with family members of some capacity. I think it means more when you have a personal relationship with someone.

Do all the work you while you still have strength.

Some are born to love, and some to fight. How can I ever succeed at both?

I have 365-days thankful notes. What a sacred-thanks?

A positive self-image has little relationship to our material circumstances.

I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do in school, but I definitely didn't have adequate time to reach my full potential as a student.

Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.

Imagine for a moment that you were God. Not God as a man or woman, but God as the awareness of all life. To be that in physical form is to be an enlightened person.

Human beings have an unalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.

Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.

It is misleading to imagine that we are developed in spite of our circumstances, for we are developed because of them. It is mastery in circumstances that is needed, not mastery over them.