I am a human being. I am not an actor.

I thought I was a pretty good writer, but I didn't have anything to write about. I wanted to go out in the world, have some adventures and then write about them.

I think if you look at the failure of journalism in the modern age, then I don't want to be called a journalist.

It's our job to get into the hardest-to-see places and bring back the best footage - we have the best footage of North Korea ever shot. If that's a stunt, then I'll keep on doing stunts until I die.

The greatest propaganda coup of the American right has been to convince its citizens that we are in the grip of a liberal conspiracy.

The human race is facing all kinds of problems, and all we are doing is pointing fingers and saying, 'Your interpretation of the problem is different from my interpretations of the problem.

I came to America from Canada because Canada is stultifyingly boring and incredibly hypocritical.

When you're 18, 19, you want to live fast and leave a beautiful corpse behind.

Once you have a certain amount of money, it ceases to be an issue. I'd rather put my cultural imprint on the fabric of life. After money, all you want is immortality.

There are only two companies in the world that can help me. That's Facebook and Google, because they are going to make me the largest digital network in the world, which is my goal.

I woke up. I was like, "Look, you can do anything you want - and you want a lot of things, so you should get to work."

I want you to be weak. As weak as I am.

Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one's other self listening.

If there is any pressure to sell yourself cheap in order to be accepted, you truly don't belong there.

The way to achieve happiness is to have a high standard for yourself and a medium one for everyone else.

One of the rather unedifying truths about grief is it does block out more or less everything. It has a solipsistic quality to it.

I love to sing, and I love to drink scotch. Most people would rather hear me drink scotch.

A Writer says: read what I have written An historian says: listen to my lecture A critic says: listen to what I think A journalist says: let me tell you a story.

I wrote an entire movie [Man up] about how important I think voices are, so it was funny.

Life is short, but art lives forever.

My joy knows no bounds... I will devote all my energy and all the powers available to me to the service of Nigeria and humanity.