You know, social issue movies don't make a lot of money.

I have three sisters and I've always wanted a brother, so I was really interested in that notion.

Tarantino's stuff in its inception was all about finding a way for him to break into Hollywood.

My first film goes into production in October. It's called White Boy Shuffle and it's based on a novel about a young black kid and it's sort of reminiscent of Catcher in the Rye.

The ultimate 20-year plan is to be living in the Caribbean, writing, living off the land, eating from the ocean and probably smoking herb.

Where you raise your children isn't as important as how you raise your children.

The idea of doing something that you've seen a thousand times before doesn't appeal to me.

It's nice that people want to compliment you in some superficial way, but I've never considered that that's how I might be categorized. I guess it's better than being called ugly.

My sisters are my favorite people on earth.

A film goes through so many hands, that by the time it's done, it might not resemble what you thought you were making.

Granted, there are times when, for business reasons, you do something that's more mainstream. But even then, I try to find something that has a dark or subversive aspect.

Sometimes crisis triggers the genius within

you are responsible for you own happiness

We can win respect in the world only if we are strong internally and can banish poverty and unemployment from our country.

In three years, every product my company makes will be obsolete. The only question is whether we will make them obsolete or somebody else will.

As a teenager, I was an enormous fan of Valerie Bertinelli's hair.

Of course I want to be [prime minister].

Everyday life invents itself by poaching in countless ways on the property of others.

Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.

Really skinny actresses make me hungry. I see them and think, 'Honey, you need to eat!'

Oh my God," he said. "A kind word from Rose Hathaway. I can die a happy man.