About a year ago, out of the blue, I just wrote a bunch of songs.

Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb.

Well, whether it's on film or on TV, you don't want to throw too many curves at your audio and video guys.

I don't limit my taste. There's some jazz that I like and there's some opera. I've been listening to what was essentially country music, but it crossed over to rock.

I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed.

I always find it flattering when somebody recognizes me.

I pulled out of making movies in about '96 or '97.

On the last couple of movies I made - big-budget Hollywood movies - I really missed being able to create my own material.

Its just I fell into a bunch of movies that kind of fit in my life. It made sense to do them in the 80s. Folks who know me think its hilarious.

My own personal taste in films as a member of the audience was not completely in line with films I was doing.

And I discovered after a couple years that I really didn't miss making movies.

After all, what is education, if not the unparalleled means to transcend the self- imposed physical limits of the mind and the body.

Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough.

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

A flower falls even though we love it. A weed grows even though we don't love it.

I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.

I didn't feel anything watching him go. I didn't even wish I did.

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.

A lot of times in movies, you see the "small town" people, being bowled over by this creative entity or this corporate ideal, and it's not true, at all.

I have a dream: One day we will get to the promised land. Then the president will be me, The government will be Shabaam, Mos and Kweli...that's it! All wackness is now banned.

Good shot, bad luck and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be slightly amplified.