I'm so from the Woody Allen/Spike Lee school.

Giving should be a part of your routine, just like working out, eating, and sleeping.

You don't get to celebrate yourself unless you risk being mocked or rejected. As an artist, you cannot play it safe. You just can't.

Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.

My biggest fear in life is to be average.

Is it possible that there are no coincidences?

When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.

I find it very eerie when somebody is being really polite.

There are scenes that were right on the edge, but I always try to err on non-indulgence. It's something that I'm very careful about, that I'm just leaning too hard into something.

Sometimes we do not do things that we wish to do, so others will not know that we wish to do them.

When you find your voice, your life takes on grace.

You were brought to where you are standing now because the decisions you took some time back have held you by your hands and dragged you this far.

Domestic abusers and the abused need to develop healthy support systems...

We must know what we think and speak out, even at the risk of unpopularity.

I always say you've only got one life to live, and you're not promised a tomorrow. So, you might as well just have a good time with it.

No one has ever abandoned a belief because he was forced to do so.

The size of your faith or the degree of your knowledge is not the issue—it is the integrity you demonstrate toward the faith you do have and the truth you already know.

I feel like I have a bowling ball sitting on my hoohah! Apparently I have a lot of amniotic fluid, so whenever my water breaks it will be like a fire hydrant!

Our belief in any particular natural law cannot have a safer basis than our unsuccessful critical attempts to refute it.

Cleaning up the country cannot be the sole responsibility of sweepers. Do citizens have no role in this? We have to change this mindset.

I've also always known that I wouldn't be playing for the N.B.A.