I don't have a problem with enthusiasm.

'Rapa Nui' is about the conflict in the 1600s on Easter Island. It's about the clash of the royal clan and the working class.

What is heard and how it is heard is more important than what you say.

I always thought success was from inside, so it was how diversified you were as a person and how cultivated or how much you cultivated yourself.

Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.

We don't naturally want to take responsibility for our lives. We want to give the responsibility to someone else. We blame them when our lives aren't good.

When I would ask women to tell me landays, and they were comfortable enough to do so, they'd tell me ones that reflected the state of their own lives.

Gotos aren't damnable to begin with. If you aren't smart enough to distinguish what's bad about some gotos from all gotos, goto hell.

It never gets easier; you just go faster.

If they had wanted to punish me, they should have kept me in a communal apartment. Then I would have become a wreck.

I love entertaining people and making them laugh. It's my favorite thing to do.

I never felt at home in London, because people were constantly telling me I didn't belong here, so after a while, you tend to believe that.

I've won a championship on every level except the NBA. It's frustrating to have not gotten that in the first two years.

In fiction I think we should have no agenda but to tell the truth.