I think L.A. is beautiful.

My first audition was an open call and I had no picture and no resume - that's how clueless I was. I just thought I could show up.

I assume Obama knows about stop and frisk, so this is not the person that should be the head of homeland security. I had to say something. Kelly's nomination would go against who President Obama is.

There are conservative people in all colours in America.

You look up to your parents and you want them to accept you, and you don't want them to look at you in a negative light. So you do things to make them proud and accept you.

That's what you want art to do, to open people up and start conversations.

My mother's a pretty warm, open person.

I would come to L.A. for a job, but I love New York.

I want to tell authentic, real stories with real characters.

I love that you can watch a film and 10 years later still be affected.

I have a Twitter handle, but I never sign on.

...the winter is kind and leaves red berries on the boughs for hungry sparrows...

Your smile is poetry to my soul igniting flames of old

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.

In Ethiopia, the problem is that you don't know who's who. You don't know who to trust. You don't have any freedom.

I believe in the universality of freedom and therefore want to be involved in the freedom movement.

All our thinking constitutes the new world, but all our thoughts are older and older.

The child endures all things.

Because of the complexity of the problem, environmental skepticism was once tenable. No longer. It is time to flip from skepticism to activism.

Your life is a reflection of how you think

My business is to prevent the future.