Sports also teaches you that it's about the team, and the better your teammates are, the better they make you.

Be passionate about your [movie] material, because you're going to have to overcome a lot of "No's," and it's that passion that fuels the fight.

A classic is a classic for a reason. Let's try to create new classics. The idea of repeating ourselves drives me a little crazy.

I want us to have it all, love and career. It's a struggle sometime to achieve that, but I love the struggle.

In film school, I knew I wanted to be a director, but I found out pretty damn quickly that nobody was just going to hand me a script to direct.

I write to music, and Nina Simone is always on my playlist to write to. I mean, shes inspiring. She's truthful and real and raw.

I write to music, so every script I have has its own playlist. Music just opens me up to the emotions that I'm writing.

I grew up with white parents and until after college, it was a lot of confusion, especially because I grew up in an all-white area. So I never looked around and saw anyone who looked like me.

I love movies. And I dig a great love story: the kind that wrecks me, then builds me back up and leaves me inspired. I write what I want to see.

There are so many romantic comedies made, but very few dramas or love stories. And with a love story, you have to take time to develop three-dimensional characters.

Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.

There are no good men among the living, and no bad ones among the dead

Stealing money from your parents - I feel like I did that a lot and I now know as an adult that your parents knew how much money they had. Nobody was being fooled.

President-elect John F.Kennedy said to Robert McNamara that there's no school for presidents, or, for that matter, for secretaries of defense.

Panic was the worst thing. When you panicked, you couldn't see possibilities. Then came despair.

I'm happy to talk to anybody about anything.

Capitalism is based on ruthless exploitation and competition, and leads inevitably to the development of mega monopolies.

I had trouble listening to adults who didn't really mean anything that they said; it was as if their language poured into my ears only to drain right out a little spigot in the back of my head.

You can have fun, but you also have to put on your thinking cap every day