I didn't want to be a director for hire. It really just took me a long time to learn how to direct and to feel up to the job.

Don't be a jerk. Try to love everyone. Give more than you take. And do it despite the fact that you only really like about seven out of 500 people.

College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school.

Eventually, the nerds and the geeks will have their day.

For me, until I know that the audience really gets what I'm trying to communicate I'm not done.

In the writing, I'm just trying to go deeper, emotionally, and learn more about myself and reveal more and find a way to connect with people in new ways.

We are at this weird moment where there's an economic model that supports creativity. People are demanding something new and fresh.

I am always driven by the terror of humiliation.

Every joke is an experiment. When you sit, alone, and write a script, or just a joke, you really have no idea if it will succeed.

I think that everything I do tends to root for the underdog.

The audience doesn't care that most of happened. They just want a good movie.

Calling for change and being part of making change are two very different things. Stop calling for change and be a part of making the change you want to see.

Leadership … is a collective and constantly redistributed function, and not the private property of the few or The One.

It is impossible to get rid of the bondage of slavery, if we do not start acting as free citizens of our country

I judge the world by my own lightsand I come by my own hand.

I'm not trying to be coy, but I think everyone notices these things like skin color but some people are more aware that they are noticing them than others, maybe. If that makes sense.

Have faith in God. Stay focused.

Mistaking Palestinian military weakness for moral innocence seems to further amplify the inattention of journalists to the culture of lies.

No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others.

I was born on this mountain, this mountains my home, she holds me and keeps me from worry and woe.

Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.