But most scripts are terrible. Most projects are bad, that's just kind of the way it is. And I'm not really attracted to those.

I want to see somebody go to jail over the financial crisis and not just black, brown and poor whites over humbles and minor drug beefs.

I think it’s intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are.

I understand what's it like to work all week and on Friday night just want to go and leave your brain at the door, buy some popcorn and be thrilled by something.

Every time I've learned something, I've realized there are a hundred more things I don't know about the thing I just learned.

Living by example - that's always a better teacher than trying to preach.

Speak up when you're supposed to, as opposed to trying to write prescriptions for the way people should live.

It's important to keep the people who know you well around you. It helps center you.

We're really trying to give people the ability to go into a darkened room and have a couple hours of just pure enjoyment.

When I'm the person in front of the microphone, and I'm the person in the light, I want to reflect and refract the light onto places where they need the attention, where I don't need it.

If you look up and no one who's around you has been around you for the past 20 years, and they're all new people, I think that's a problem.

I am in full possession of the amazing power of being sarcastic.

...because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life.

Forget your past, live for the present day

Celebrate your journey of life.

Oh! Did you hear that Haley Spencer asked him to homecoming?” she exclaimed. “Of course I didn’t. You’re my source of gossip, remember?

When you have parents who are recognizable, there's a certain part of you that wants to know that people you meet are able to not get clouded by that.

Knowledge is more important than space.

They say not to look back, but if you’re not sure what lies ahead, what else is there but looking back?

Cram nailed his colours to the mast and threw down the Great Pretender

Troubled times do call for troubled songs, songs that unsettle our souls and our spirits unapologetically.