Learn to work with people you wouldn't go to lunch with.

It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

If you’ve got the comedy eye, you can look at any situation and see the humor in it while others don’t.

I am a total believer of making the process a good time - make it memorable, have some fun, try to shoot high in your quality and then dont get crazy, see what happens.

Never underestimate the power of your sister.

There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it

You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.

Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing

I think a lot of creative people have no sense of numbers and economics.

I'm too old to be forced.

I made nepotism an art form, so I get to work with a lot of relatives and they're part of it.

I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.

A wise person is the one who knows what he knows and what he does not know.

Dialogue can help you find out if you’ve been brainwashed or not.

It seems sometimes that people take a deliberately myopic and fill their eyes with things seen microscopically in order not to see macrosopically.

The next-to-last sentence that the Buddha is reported to have spoken as he was dying, before his final sentence of encouragement to his community, was “Transient are all conditioned things.

My daughters, your daughters, our daughters deserve safety, protection, and the freedom to make their own choices about their personal lives and their physical selves.

One of the deepest principles of life and leadership: it's not about you.

I don't have the genetic make-up of a frontman, but I'm learning how to do it.

So do we discover, in the world, that our worst fears are unfulfilled; yet we must fear, in order that we may feel delight.

Never sleep in a small tent with your nemesis.