I don't deal with hypotheticals. I deal with reality.

We need to be aware of all different forms of brainwashing and radicalization.

People do forget there is still a lot of nostalgia in Russia for the Soviet Union.

If you imagine that everything is an exchange, then we're supposed to just transact and walk away. If we haven't walked away and we still have a relationship, it's because there's a debt.

When you're are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. Its more important than that.

In Angels in America, I got to fulfill a lifelong dream. I was in the air eight nights a week for two years, and I just loved it.

The public regards lawyers with great distrust. They think lawyers are smarter than the average guy but use their intelligence deviously. Well, they're wrong. Usually they are not smarter.

A milligram of prevention is worth a kilogram of cure.

The piano's world encompasses glass-nerved virtuos and stomping barrel-housers in fedoras; it is a world of pasture and storm, of perfumed smoke, of liquid mathematics.

A gift that cannot be given away ceases to be a gift. The spirit of a gift is kept alive by its constant donation.

Education can change the scope of an entire family

Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation.

You go overseas and people are oppressed and scared and worried but we're not like that... we're more like my films and how people come out at the end of seeing them - they feel good.