I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds.

I have three sisters and I've always wanted a brother, so I was really interested in that notion.

Tarantino's stuff in its inception was all about finding a way for him to break into Hollywood.

My first film goes into production in October. It's called White Boy Shuffle and it's based on a novel about a young black kid and it's sort of reminiscent of Catcher in the Rye.

The ultimate 20-year plan is to be living in the Caribbean, writing, living off the land, eating from the ocean and probably smoking herb.

Where you raise your children isn't as important as how you raise your children.

The idea of doing something that you've seen a thousand times before doesn't appeal to me.

It's nice that people want to compliment you in some superficial way, but I've never considered that that's how I might be categorized. I guess it's better than being called ugly.

My sisters are my favorite people on earth.

A film goes through so many hands, that by the time it's done, it might not resemble what you thought you were making.

Granted, there are times when, for business reasons, you do something that's more mainstream. But even then, I try to find something that has a dark or subversive aspect.

Most social acts have to be understood in their setting and lose meaning if isolated... No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

When someone breaks up with you, their beauty-- which you took such satisfaction in-- suddenly becomes unfair.

It is impossible to bargain collectively with the government.

I'm not sure if music got a future. We have all these electronic ways to download and steal music and get music, but there's no money in makin' music.

A weed is a plant out of place.

A lot of teams made a mistake in the NBA draft.

Saints make wonderful grandfathers and lousy husbands.

Skating alone is an art. Doing it on a substance? I don't know. That's got to be tough.