I don't work. I keep telling people I'm unemployed. And I don't wash dishes, and I don't wash clothes, and I don't clean my house. Somebody else does that.

I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer - its dust and lowering skies.

If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.

There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.

There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.

People look for greatness only in the extraordinary and completely overlook the wonder of the ordinary.

I want to make sure America has got the best education system in the world. And we're retaining our workers for the jobs of tomorrow.

Don't think of it as losing a boyfriend. Think of it as gaining a stalker." -Dan Cahill

I learn so much from watching films like that with commentary and then when you get to hear another filmmaker talk about their films it's a really great experience.

So to compare your real life, or your partner or lover or whoever to a character in a movie, you're setting yourself up for disappointment. They don't map.

the art of reading hardly differs from the art of writing, in that its most intense pleasures and pains must remains private, and cannot be communicated to others.

It's so cheap to just release a movie. You can do it by yourself if you have to. Put in on the Internet if you have to.

Bring a child and ignore your inhibitions.

When men find they must inevitably perish, they willingly resolve to die with their comrades and with their arms in their hands.

I always have an idea in the back of my head, but that goes with anything else that I'm doing. There is a sort of vision behind it.