I consider the coke a major cause. Of course, you could also make the argument that because cocaine speeds up the heart, it's good for you.

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me . . they’re cramming for their final exam.

I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

Some people have no idea what they're doing, and a lot of them are really good at it.

All the media and the politicians ever talk about is things that separate us, things that make us different from one another

Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.

In America, anyone can become president. That's the problem.

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

There is a planet named Pluto, but we don't have one named Goofy. Goofy would be a good name for this planet. It certainly qualifies.

One might have said that reason made him flee from reason.

The beast way of avoiding mistakes is doing nothing

I think talent is like a water table under the earth—you tap it with your effort and it comes through you.

I only produce movies that have something stylistically different, so that I can learn from the experience of producing.

When a person feels so trapped and no options, they become desperate and in the middle of desperation.

The Japanese, if I understand them, are masters of the unsaid and the unstated, of subtlety and ambiguity, all of which constitute powerful stimulants to the imagination.

To get such beauty from something that has been produced from the artist's own imagination appealed to me enormously.

The minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion.

Life in this world is short. Let us make use of our lives in the pursuit of happiness and not trouble.

Three enemies of personal peace: regret over yesterday’s mistakes, anxiety over tomorrow’s problems, and ingratitude for today’s blessings.