I consider myself somewhat spiritual, but not practicing.

When it feels scary to jump, that’s exactly when you jump. Otherwise you end up staying the same place your whole life. And that I can’t do.

When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.

There is certainly a part of my filmmaking that harkens to a more simpler commercial kind of taste, but then with this theres certainly a kind of avant-garde, abstract, existential element to it.

When you're on a boat, it is this tiny little island where you have to be completely self-sufficient.

I had a caricature view of the guy in the beret with the big megaphone­­, but a movie director and writer was beyond my role of understanding.

We print money. The people that print the money is actually us. The government of the United States of America. By its very nature, we control that, and this system is there as representation of us.

I grew up in suburban New York City and London, England, where my dad was working.

I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.

I think my films kind of walk this line that Im proud of, that they feel sort of like films of my youth, which were far more commercial.

He gave his life to save the thing that mattered most to him: his Clanmates, ” he meowed softly. “He truly has the stars at his paws now. You will see him again, when it is time.

I was not born to be free---I was born to adore and obey.

Mother humor is such a universal theme. I wrote a show called '25 Questions for a Jewish Mother.' I had people coming up to me after the show saying, 'I'm Baptist, and my mother is just like yours.'

I guess quotes make me feel more connected.

I'm attracted to any type of endeavor that gives me the chance to express what's going on inside me.

By fancy's aid I see the lightning fly, And the hoarse thunder roll along the sky.

I didn't come here to run for President. I really just came here to play rock and roll.

Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.

I too belong to an OBC caste but I have never used my community to get power

The worst thing you can do, despite the innumerable obstacles we confront, is to not try.