If you have something really important you want to say, you have to read your audience, I guess.

There's nothing better than finishing something and looking at it. Whether it be a script or a movie, it's this complete little thing that now exists and is hopefully immortal.

It's an important part of being a member of society to know what's happening in the world and to know where you fall in it and what you can do about it.

When you know you have a certain amount of work to finish, you just don't allow yourself to get sick again.

I've been wanting to make a movie about the war in Sierra Leone, specifically, for more than 15 years.

Collaboration sometimes causes conflict, and sometimes it's easy, but the bringing together of great minds only adds.

If you really want to tell someone you love them, you don't just go and blurt it out. There's a dance. And your movie does that.

I do want to direct a movie from horseback one day.

You only have so much time in life so everything you do needs to mean something to you.

You're always against the clock. But really just fighting for quality.

The apartments are made for eels.

In some cases, you can tell how somebody is being treated by their own boss from the way they are treating someone to whom they are a boss.

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism

A more wonderful life and a more beautiful world is one thought away.

I have three brothers and they're all into computers. They're all intellects. My mother would pay me a quarter a page to read a book and I couldn't make 50 cents. I just couldn't do it.

My kids are just waiting for me at home. I'm their father. They're wondering, 'When's Daddy coming home?'

Funding and maintaining programs from Head Start to Pell Grants must be a high priority.

The press is, almost without exception, corrupt.

Sometimes when you love people, you want to believe they're good.

Man's fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable. [Lat., Actutum fortunae solent mutarier; varia vita est.]

I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer.