I just want some space to myself every now and then. Every time I’m with you I have this sense that you want something from me.

Migration gives a blank cheque to put anything you don't feel like addressing in the memory hold. No neighbours can go against the monster narrative of your family.

I don't think you can be from the Caribbean and not know a certain amount about the apocalypse.

The whole culture is telling you to hurry, while the art tells you to take your time. Always listen to the art.

Sometimes you just have to try, even if you know it won’t work.

She's applying her lipstick; I've always believed that the universe invented the color red solely for Latinas.

If you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level any reflection of themselves

We get these lives for free. I didn't do anything to get this life, and no matter what the hardships are, it is free and, in a way, it's an extraordinary bargain.

Colleagues are a wonderful thing - but mentors, that's where the real work gets done.

I think the average guy thinks they're pro-woman, just because they think they're a nice guy and someone has told them that they're awesome. But the truth is far from it.

[Donald] Trump is taking America's dirty laundry to the center stage. Everything he does, the rest of the country already does really well: victimize immigrants, poor people, women.

This much is true: When you are about to effect the lives of hundreds of people, Satan will do everything he can to prevent it from happening. Often pride and anger are his best assassins.

I want either less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.

I'd be hard-pressed to think of anybody who's made me laugh, who's funny, but who's also relentlessly positive.

you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead.

A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince.

In a thriller, the camera's an active narrator, or can be.

We've had the same set designer and the same crew in many cases since 1972.

I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired me was out of town Tuesday.

If you want to save, put money into superannuation, you will never find a better savings vehicle.

If we all aim to love ourselves, every bit, we will become love and radiate beauty to all those around us.