You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.

It's a terribly hard job to spend a billion dollars and get your money's worth.

The goose lays the golden egg. Payrolls make consumers.

I don't think you can spend yourself rich.

I don't see any significant recession or depression in the offing.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

You need contradictions to make an ideal.

So how's the putrid pile of caca doing?

Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar it never fails of doing justice upon itself for every guilty person is his own hangman.

A government is the most dangerous threat to man

You're going to react to a painting in a way that the painting demands you react.

It doesn't matter if you're doing a studio movie or you're doing an independent movie. When you get to set and you're doing a scene, it's always going to be the same job.

At sea, I feel comfortable and I come to rest.

Many people have been positive influences in my life. My parents, whom I mentioned, were the most important, but many of my teachers were also a big help to me.

I actually think it's going to be the intriguing plot [ in Black Snake Moan] point that brings people into the film.