I've been around Hollywood and filmmaking long enough to know that it's a tricky dangerous business when you go on camera, you got to watch yourself.

Do what you love. It’s going to lead to where you want to go.

Almost all Iraqis with any previous experience in the intelligence business are Sunni Arab, increasing the risk of penetration of the new intelligence apparatus by the insurgency.

But I think frustration is hilarious. One of my missions is to bring humor into fine art. It's sacred.

I throw dignity out the window, and just become a creature of the moment on the stage. I act like I'd never act in real life.

If they make the deadline because the Shiites and Kurds essentially rammed a draft through over Sunni Arab objections, there will be hell to pay.

I hate people who act too cool for school. Just own up to it, dude.

The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or four paragraphs written honestly about their lives by our ancestors?

It's about communication, no matter how impossibly hard your art is to understand and how much of an ivory tower or high horse you get on, it's still basically communication or why are you doing it?

The only tip I have for an artist is perseverance... Never give up.

It would be really embarrassing to introduce yourself as somebody who makes beauty.

I love you enough to never make you choose.

I hope so, ” grumbled Ian. “I’m going to look for another one of ‘em winged dogs for Mabel.

It is not our right to punish one for thinking as he does, no matter how much we disagree.

And if I'm alone in bed, I will go to the window, look up at the sky, and feel certain that loneliness is a lie, because the Universe is there to keep me company.

No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.

Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?

Many children struggle in schools... because the way they are being taught is incompatible with the way they learn.

Failure leaves open a door for us to try, and try again.

The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of others.

Don't limit your challenges; challenge your limits. Each day we must strive for constant and never ending improvement.