Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.

I never cared so much about making perfect sense. I wanted to make perfect nonsense.

Life is beautiful. Really, it is. Full of beauty and illusions. Life is great. Without it, you'd be dead.

After 100 years, films should be getting really complicated. The novel has been reborn about 400 times, but it's like cinema is stuck in the birth canal.

For certain things, certain audiences, people will laugh. And in other places, there's dead silence. And I enjoy them both. You try to make films where it's never one way - like life.

I have no desire for any type of introspection at all. I don't ever ask myself any questions. I don't want answers.

A scientist shouldn't be asked to judge the economic and moral value of his work. All we should ask the scientist to do is find the truth and then not keep it from anyone.

Gucci Mane is trap rap's Frank Sinatra.

What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.

Everything has to have some kind of a point for people to breathe easy. What's the point of life? I have no clue, but sometimes there are things that just attract us and pull us in a certain way.

I like working with family and friends and people I admire. All my movies are filled with family members of some capacity. I think it means more when you have a personal relationship with someone.

Enlightenment is the transformation that brings out the highest human qualities. It is the process that removes the clouds of negativity and brings the colors of peace, compassion and kindness.

Do young people have the moral stamina to carry through in case of economic depression? . . . The real tests of the [younger] generations have not yet come, but they are on their way!

if you like the lovable sound of an asthma attack in your ear every time you tell a joke.

My beauty secret is to try to keep my heart as open and happy as I can, because it really makes the sad lines on my face look better.

I was a big fan of Kurt Russell growing up and I always wanted to be the modern day Kurt Russell.

A swift carriage, of a dark night, rattling with four horses over roads that one can’t see--that’s my idea of happiness.

I need my man to be my homie.

It is the policy of the United States not to engage in torture, and there are federal criminal laws that prohibit torture.

What is the world coming to?

Israel is moving from the realm of poetry to the realm of prose.