I'm an audience member first. My inspiration is still based on hunger. Often, when people try to tell me "nobody wants that story; I'm like bullshit because I want it."

The world wants to define me by my mammary glands and melanin. It is just fascinating that Michael Mann has never been asked what it is like to be a white male filmmaker.

Sci-Fi is incredibly challenging and has its own language. I have to speak its language; it's not going to learn mine.

I'm really excited about the places I've gone and the places I'm going, internally and externally speaking, and working to bring different spectrums of curiosity to life.

I love the experience of walking into the theater, buying a ticket and all that goes with it.

My aim is to reflect the actual human-scape, a little bit.

Men spend their time in following a ball or a hare it is the pleasure even of kings.

Is there any courage, without craziness?

Desire isn’t appeased by its object, only irritated into something more than desire that can join with the stars to inform the chaotic heavens with sense.

When I look at how fortunate I've been, being a musician... my response to being overpaid is that I should pay it back to my community in some way.

Man seeks, in his manhood, not orders, not laws and peremptory dogmas, but counsel from one who is earnest in goodness and faithful in friendship, making man free.

I'm sure glad this isn't my home ball park.

Quelque rigueur qui loge en votre coeur, Amour s'en peut un jour rendre vainqueur. That little harshness which resides in your heart, Love will vanquish someday.

... nothing loved is ever lost or perished.

Into the field of Yellow flowers The red setting sun!

I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been elected three times to the board of NOW in New York City.