I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft...

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

There are things known and things unknown and in between are The Doors.

Time to live, time to lie, time to laugh, and time to die. Take it easy baby. Take it as it comes.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.

It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.

Give me songs to sing and emerald dreams to dream and I'll give you love unfolding.

Nobody would stay interested in me if I was normal

Choose not to prove how wrong others are, but choose to show them on how to be right

What is more natural in a democratic age than that we should begin to measure the stature of a work of art-especially of a painting-by how widely and how well it is reproduced?

Mo Yan is a writer who, defiantly in the face of those who wish his work were less cartoonish and more straightforward in its political meanings, continues to sing his own peculiar and alluring song.

What was happening was the war on drugs. That was the primary culprit I could see that was getting in the way of black progress.

I attract a crowd, not because I'm an extrovert or I'm over the top or I'm oozing with charisma. It's because I care.

There are a handful of actors who sustain interest because it's exciting to watch them get better at what they do. I want to be one of those actors.

Self worth is everything. Without it life is a misery.

That kind of natural understanding doesn't develop naturally

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

All films are learning processes. I am still trying to work out how you make a movie. I didn't study at film school or any of those things. I didn't bother with film theory.