Everyone moves for reason. You need a reason to leave everything behind.

I did a project on immigration, which is something that has always been close to my heart. For me, immigration was the way to evolve, to make people better.

I didn't go to art school. So, I never had this moment of taking time to actually learn how to make things and learn about art history and learn about people that came before me.

I always feel like I don't know how to express myself. I need to be with people that understand my language.

We are at the mercy of time, and for all the ways we are remembered, a sea of things will be lost. But how much is contained in what lingers!

I don't want anything I don't deserve, but if they offer me more money, I'm not stupid.

We have the real self and the false self, there's nothing wrong with them, and everyone has both of them.

We need a human presence at the border and a humane presence at the border.

One good thing about being young is that you're not experienced enough to know what can't be done.

There is bias and sexism everywhere, just like there are problems of racism and homophobia stemming from the whole notion that we're arranged in a hierarchy, that we're ranked rather than linked.

Simply making decisions, one after another, can be a form of art.

Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever

There are many people who think I'm actually a gangster or a mafioso, largely because of 'Goodfella'.

We neither know nor judge ourselves; others may judge, but cannot know us. God alone judges and knows us.