I've been grateful for what comes along.

It was just this crazy craziness, and the fact that it was shot in Paris, and it had these incredible people in it. It was an easy thing to say yes to.

I shot "Footloose" nearby and we used to hike. Very fond memories.

What I love is a peanut butter and pickle sandwich. I'll just have peanut butter and bananas, then peanut butter and pickles. Peanut butter and chocolate I don't recommend.

I had to choose, I'd be so sad. They are flip sides of the same coin. I love both comedy and drama.

Unless you are unique, your opinion goes out the window.

I failed to fulfill what should have been an interesting role. I couldn't take their formula and bring what I had, my humor, my ideas, and make it my own.

Woody is so musical in his filmmaking. I've never worked with anyone I've trusted so completely. He won't let you hit a false note.

Gee, this isn't like I imagined it would be in the bathtub.

I look at the kids coming out of Yale. They are so intelligent with their careers. I wish I had that.

I'm more aware of time. The element of time.

Now that rock is turning 50, it's become classical in itself. It's interesting to see that development.

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals - With no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.

In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself.

The technical definition of the Holocene has to do with the extinction of a snail species in Sicily.

I'm accountable - this sounds emo - to black American writing, Southern writing, Southern black American writing, American writing and my people. That's kind of what keeps me accountable.

Don't weep, insects -- Lovers, stars themselves, Must part.

Do I have an option? when asked by the press if she was "running as a woman."

The poor tell us who we are, the prophets tell us who we could be, so we hide the poor, and kill the prophets.

Holy meditation helps to burn out all mental impurities.

The clothes we wear send a message about how the world perceives us.