I understand what's it like to work all week and on Friday night just want to go and leave your brain at the door, buy some popcorn and be thrilled by something.

I want to see somebody go to jail over the financial crisis and not just black, brown and poor whites over humbles and minor drug beefs.

I think it’s intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are.

Every time I've learned something, I've realized there are a hundred more things I don't know about the thing I just learned.

Living by example - that's always a better teacher than trying to preach.

Speak up when you're supposed to, as opposed to trying to write prescriptions for the way people should live.

It's important to keep the people who know you well around you. It helps center you.

We're really trying to give people the ability to go into a darkened room and have a couple hours of just pure enjoyment.

When I'm the person in front of the microphone, and I'm the person in the light, I want to reflect and refract the light onto places where they need the attention, where I don't need it.

If you look up and no one who's around you has been around you for the past 20 years, and they're all new people, I think that's a problem.

One truth that I know for sure, for me anyway, is that the more you know, the more you realize that you don't know.

We usually live our lives with the belief that "I sacrifice myself for everyone else, " rather than thinking that "everyone else helps me.

There is no ‘what if’. Only in stories.

People who look down on us poor country folk usually won’t admit that anything worthwhile can come out of here.

Art for art's sake, money for God's sake.

Pioneering don't pay.

The whole chameleon thing about acting. That's why I'm moving towards directing - it's a much more healthy occupation.

An obedient wife commands her husband.

If you really have integrity, there are very few people who can insult you, or honor you.

There is too much talk of cooking being an art or a science – we are only making ourselves something to eat.

Blue uniforms are real. Cops are a social fiction