I do care about style. I do care, but I only care about style that serves the subject.

I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person has supposedly done or not done.

I believe we need heroes...we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.

I passionately believe in heroes, but I think the world has changed its criteria in determining who it describes as a hero.

There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.

I don't blame people for their mistakes, but I do ask that they pay for them.

I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.

I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.

I want to be remembered as a storyteller.

Art is not an elitist gift for a few select people. Art is for everyone.

What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit.

The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.

Your organization will take on the personality of its top leaders

You just can't beat slip covers for giving that friendly air hospitals need so desperately.

Presentation, not reference.

When you want a thing deeply, earnestly and intensely, this feeling of desire reinforces your will and arouses in you the determination to work for the desired object.

Brothers keep asking Ice Cube, 'Yo, when will you bust?' They surround me and make a big fuss

Closure isn't closure until someone's ready to close the door.

Child support should do just that - support children, not the federal government.

I'm so thankful. God has been so good and generous.

Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention.