We sit for a week and listen to an extraordinary amount of people talk about what they do in the intelligence world. It's pretty overwhelming.

It should not be harder for our daughters to direct than our sons. It should be an equal playing field.

As a storyteller, I think where working in television can almost be like lifting weights - you really have to know what your story is about.

So the starry sky turns round like a millstone, always bringing some trouble, and men being born or dying.

Food has always brought me comfort and the bingeing is triggered when I'm in a space that is not positive.

Man is jealous because of his amour propre woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

We know from past history that when young people vote for one party a couple of times, they tend to vote for that party during their adult lifetimes in disproportionate numbers.

I've been fighting my entire adult life for men and women everywhere to be equal and to be different. But there is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent.

It's not even race; it's a certain type of person that gets 'Pootie Tang.

Nothing and no one in the world is valuable or worthless.

No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom.

If there is anything education does not lack today it is critics.

I'm always consciously trying to make what I feel is missing.