To a reporter after Ray was pounded by Edmonton's Georges Laraque: What are you, the fight doctor now or something? You've never been in a fight in your life, so what are you talking about?

That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.

I suppose in order to succeed at something you have to be very persistent. I've never done that.

[Hillary Clinton] telling the enemy everything you want to do. No wonder you've been fighting - no wonder you've been fighting ISIS your entire adult life.

Special effects are characters. Special effects are essential elements. Just because you can't see them doesn't mean they aren't there.

China is in its own category - too big to ignore, too repressive to embrace, difficult to influence, and very, very proud.

Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.

For what good is freedom of expression if you lack the means to express yourself?

I was a kid who liked art and theater and dance and music, but if you lived in Harlem, high culture was somewhere else, and it wasn't black.

In the last analysis the entire field of psychology may reduce to biological electrochemistry.

Risk discomfort and solitude for understanding.