Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you're different in a society, you're funny.

The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.

We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new.

The ultimate aim of education is to enable individuals to become the architects of their own education and through that process to continually reinvent themselves.

Art is literacy of the heart

It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.

The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.

The movie business has always been like the wild-catting oil business. Everyone wants a gusher.

We have this history of impossible solutions to insoluble problems.

The kinds of nets we know how to weave determine the kinds of nets we cast. These nets, in turn, determine the kinds of fish we catch.

We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. To make money is our only objective.

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.", December 12, 2004)]

The desired shape your dreams take is directly proportional to the practical presentation of the theoretical skills that you have learnt.

We see a first generation going through adolescence knowing their every misstep, all the awkward gestures of their youth, are being frozen in a computer's memory.

Concentrate on finding your goal then concentrate on reaching it.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

Democracy is the art of thinking independently together.

For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal.

Why do we need another station where everyone has a gun? We already have BET.

When we get more houses than we can live in, more cars than we can ride in, more food than we can eat ourselves, the only way of getting richer is by cutting off those who don't have enough.

It sends the signal that you can kill and walk away and not face the kind of justice that you ought to pay for those kinds of acts.