You can never see my tears behind my anger and smile. The only thing you can see is my respect for you, because you deserve for it....

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.

One who never reads only goes where his feet can take him, but one who does, travels around the world.

My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.

To marvel at nothing is just about the one and only thing, Numicius, that can make a man happy and keep him that way.

Those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters, for without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves we collude with it through our apathy.

Put the strong, masculine figure in a school with tough kids and you have a certain control. It's very demeaning to the kids and very demeaning to the tough, black guy, but that's how they worked it.

Leadership will either lead you into a ditch or lead you into purpose. We need our leaders, especially those who are teaching our young people, to have the right message.

To a large extent, the political walls are crumbling.

The first really important book I read about filmmaking was The Film Technique by Pudovkin. This was some time before I had ever touched a movie camera and it opened my eyes to cutting and montage.

An expert must be BOLD if he hopes to alchemize his homespun theory into conventional wisdom.