There are criminals who are drug users, but most addicts are criminals only by virtue of prohibition or from resorting to crime to pay inflated black market prices.

To put someone in jail for using drugs in the privacy of his hotel room is just barbaric.

Not everyone can or wants to go straight.

Is that all souls are for? For when we die?" "No. They're for living, too.

Big league defense is going to get outs most times.

A black...gets a job with a white-owned company. He is the only black at the firm. He works hard, but he's fighting a losing battle against his genes.

The economy is in trouble, schools are in trouble, and people have been leaving the city in droves for a long, long time.

The unfortunate, yet truly exciting thing about your life, is that there is no core curriculum. The entire place is an elective.

It's never too early to care about fashion.

If we lose affection and kindliness from our life: we lose all that gives it charm.

When we travel, we are like a film at the moment of exposure; it is memory that will develop it.

Things get done only if the data we gather can inform and inspire those in a position to make a difference.

I usually don't like to talk about money, but I talk about the movie, and the other aspects of directing, etc.