I don't care about anybody's opinion - I care that my movies move you in a way to think about things and consider your own life.

We live in a world where you can walk into a bookstore and get a how-to guide on just about anything. But no one tells you how to die with dignity. No one tells you how to go out like the winner.

I have the incredibly good fortune of being able to make the majority of the work I produce in the world on my own with no one bothering me. It really comes entirely out of me.

I think that being an artist is more an approach to life than an approach to work.

How gleefully life shreds our well crafted plans.

Politics is but the common pulse beat.

Most African Americans, especially the men and women from my generation, would accept the nationalist gambit that says only European Americans can be racists, which is an interesting gambit.

Touch each object as if tomorrow you would never be able to feel anything again.

Everybody has some dysfunction in their families.

I'm a bombshell, so I'm going to do me. If I want to go platinum, I'm going platinum.

All the worse for the undeniable talent which hides the evil so subtly and makes the danger so delightful.

Ultimately ideas come out of a temperament or a sensibility, they are a crystallization or a precipitation of temperament.

Progress in general seems to hold little interest for people who call themselves 'progressives.' What arouses them are denunciations of social failures and accusations of wrong-doing.

You have to be very committed and find happiness in the work that you do.