Teasing out the way the world might look through another's eyes is what makes the creative process so fascinating and enjoyable.

Rumor is rarely more interesting than fact, but it is always more readily available.

More than 20 years on, sustained competition, informed customers and the rapid growth of new technology provide the necessary environment for substantial deregulation.

When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution.

To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.

We do not credit to the ideal of religious freedom when we talk as though religious belief is something of which public-spirited adults should be ashamed.

Rumors chase the dead like flies, and we follow them with our prim noses. None of us are gossips, but we love listening to those who are.

There is much depressing evidence that the religious voice is required to stay out of the public square only when it is pressed in a conservative cause.

Lots of white people think black people are stupid. They are stupid themselves for thinking so, but regulation will not make them smarter.

Every conflict plagues the peace that follows it.

Love is a gift we deliver when we would rather not.

Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film.

When I was 10 I used to walk around shopping centres and go, "Oh, they've recognised me!" And I would think, "hold on, who am I? I'm nobody famous yet!" - Darren on 60 Minutes

Most people make their choices predicated upon a feeling because analysis really isn't that good a tool.

When you start to engage with your creative processes, it shakes up all your impulses, and they all kind of inform one another.

We have a female prime minister [Theresa May] here in the UK. I actually really like her and think she's wonderful. I think it's the best thing that's happened to us in a long time.

I am sensitive to life, and somehow acting comes to me. I cant explain it.

The habit of ignoring Nature is deeply implanted in our times. This attitude reminds me of people who never look you in the eye; I find them disturbing and always have to look away.

If she were a writer she would collect her pencils and notebooks and favourite cat and write in bed. Strangers and lovers would never get past the locked door.

Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.

Polls are biased left; GOP wins on the issues.