In corporate culture, in sports culture, in the media, we honor those who win at all costs.

We need more men with the guts, with the courage, with the strength, with the moral integrity to break our complicit silence and challenge each other and stand with women and not against them.

Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay attention.

We need to redefine strength in men, not as the power over other people, but as forces for justice.

There's been an awful lot of silence in make culture about this ongoing tragedy of men's violence against women and children... we need to break that silence, and we need more men to do that.

Media play a powerful role in establishing and perpetuating social norms.

In real life, women dont enjoy being degraded and treated like objects/receptacles.

If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity.

Men are every bit as gendered as women.

We talk about how many women were raped last year, not about how many men raped women.

Sociopathy is the extreme manifestation of the way we socialize boys in our society.

And he would put his arms around her and hold her, but he had no idea what to tell her. In his mind, Gregor knew how to kill things, not bring them back ti life.

My dentist said to me the other day: I've enough problems in my life, so why should I see your films?

Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.

I can describe to you the taste of government cheese.

I wonder if we climb to heaven over the ruins of many cherished schemes.

I noticed that once you realize someone's watching you it's pretty hard not to find yourself watching them back.

To forgive or not to forgive... are those my only choices?

If not for the Tea Party, the Republican Party would not be coming back to its roots.

I think that quite often you can only find a choice between bad and worse. But I think it's worth making the effort, and I like to expose my characters to that sort of situation.

What is beauty? It's what you love.