Success begets success. I've been offered a lot of movies now that '30 Rock' has been successful.

Every time we sit down to eat, we make a choice. Please choose vegetarianism. Do it for animals. Do it for the environment and do it for your health.

If Obama was white, he’d be up by 17 points.

Books make great gifts because you don't have to plug them in.

Never go with a hippie to a second location.

One of the truest things to commit to is your own nature.

Behind each number is a person, a victim, whose individual story is ghastly.

To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough.

New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign.

I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems.

Only one thing counts in this life - get them to sign on the line that is dotted.

When one person succeeds, we win as a group of people. Support others dreams so we can all win.

I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism.

The genius of the people will ill brook the inquisitive and peremptory spirit of excise laws.

I was born a long way from where I belong and I am on my way home.

Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

Women suffer more from disappointment than men, because they have more of faith and are naturally more credulous.

I think I've always wanted to be different from everybody else. I get really annoyed when I do something and everybody else does it too, or if I'm doing something that everybody else is doing.

Every director is so different from every other one.

Winner gave me my bread and Russell gave me my art.

I think of filmmaking as a form of communication. Maybe it's also an art, but that's for somebody else to decide.