There are no individuals in the world only fragments of families

When there are kids involved, there's no such thing as divorce.

Every marriage is a battle between two families struggling to reproduce themselves.

Shame occurs when you haven't been able to get away with the 'who' you want people to think you are.

I have a theory that theories are destructive.

If we can abandon our missionary zeal we have less chance of being eaten by cannibals.

As much as I would miss my wife if she were to die, I would miss what we are together even more. Our "we-ness," our "us-ness."

A man should never miss an opportunity to keep his mouth shut.

I think everyone's parents have secrets. You just have to know where to look for them.

If we would remember that all the trees of earth are marked for the woodman's axe, we should not be so ready to build our nests in them.

Cinema is much more than heroes and villains.

Instead of exhorting you to augment your charity, I will rather utter an exhortation, or at least a supplication, that you may not abuse your charity by misapplying it.

Maybe today I would call Fred Leuchter and there would be two or three other documentary filmmakers interested in his story simply because of the exposure.

I solidify his [ Riccardo Tisci] vision and what he is trying to manifest, make it a crystal or solid thing because of the relationship I have with my culture and what my music means to him.

Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.

America may be in a dour condition, but it is not going to elect a dour president.

For some, the universe ends at the borders of their villages; even for others, at the threshold of their home doors.