It is very important to support what you believe in.

I became a filmmaker because I wanted to deal with issues that intrigued me, that I thought were pertinent, that would start dialogue.

If you cast an all-white movie and it doesn't do well, no one will say it's because you had an all-white cast.

I feel like every time you get to make a sequel, it's a privilege. It means that people have embraced it and want the journey to continue.

We ultimately get to know ourselves a little bit better by pushing forward.

There's an anxiety of wanting to please the studios. You want to prove to them that you can do it and sometimes you might jump at a project that you're not totally passionate about.

If you put forth a really diverse cast and you fight for it and it doesn't do well - and it may fail for other reasons - you're gone because you stuck your neck out for that decision.

I think ultimately that sense of hope is something that even as a little kid I was able to kind of grab onto.

Breathing became a painful chore. Her lips turned down while her warm fingers caressed my cheek. That touch typically brought me to my knees, but now it cut me

You have to understand the purpose of life, the purpose of life is to do something which will live forever.

The wrong that rouses our angry passions finds only a medium in us; it passes through us like a vibration, and we inflict what we have suffered.

Vote Love means vote equality. It means vote change. It means vote whats right for humanity.

No one should let themselves get used to anything.

It never occurred to me that I was going to have to talk to a camera. I don't know if I can do this.

Did bin Laden act alone, through his own al-Qaida network, in launching the attacks? About that I'm far more certain and emphatic: no.

I wonder why no one called the police about the rocket launcher? God knows my neighbors usually report it if I so much as fart in my backyard. (Bubba)

I really need to push myself and try my hardest every time, because I come from the premise that I'm not very good and I have to give my best. Otherwise, I don't deliver.

Every artist has to grow, and has to challenge themselves with a new form of expression