I discovered early that as an artist there was absolutely nothing wrong with being surrounded by people who were not dedicated to your field.

Migration gives a blank cheque to put anything you don't feel like addressing in the memory hold. No neighbours can go against the monster narrative of your family.

I don't think you can be from the Caribbean and not know a certain amount about the apocalypse.

The whole culture is telling you to hurry, while the art tells you to take your time. Always listen to the art.

Sometimes you just have to try, even if you know it won’t work.

She's applying her lipstick; I've always believed that the universe invented the color red solely for Latinas.

If you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level any reflection of themselves

We get these lives for free. I didn't do anything to get this life, and no matter what the hardships are, it is free and, in a way, it's an extraordinary bargain.

Colleagues are a wonderful thing - but mentors, that's where the real work gets done.

I think the average guy thinks they're pro-woman, just because they think they're a nice guy and someone has told them that they're awesome. But the truth is far from it.

[Donald] Trump is taking America's dirty laundry to the center stage. Everything he does, the rest of the country already does really well: victimize immigrants, poor people, women.

Having friends was weird . . . but in a good way.

With the magnificence of eternity before us, let time, with all its fluctuations, dwindle into its own littleness.

I think that, often, the people who can make you happy are right there, and having them in your life would make your life better, but you can't see how to do it.

There are things that aren't represented in movies that are a big part of everyone's life. This is a movie about health and about the body.

Facebook does social really well, but continues to fail at community.

Sometimes you might be a fan of bands but you don't know where they're from.

I was on the computer the other day and typed my name into Google. Everything on there was bad. I hope in a few years there might be something there about me playing football.

Counter Girl (in candy shop): You two are cute. Seriously. How long have you been going out? Sam: Six years.

I feel as though I've been very fortunate in my career, which is not all that long, so far.

It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms.