I don't think any of us are normal people.

Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I've never been down before is like going to a movie.

Anytime I make a movie, I really have absolutely no idea how it's going to go over. I've had the whole range of different kinds of reactions.

I don't really look for challenges as much as I like adventures. Other than that I'm just trying to find stories I want to tell.

The movies I make tend not to be quite reality but the characters are inspired by real people and they're always very personal.

You don't do background music the way a lot of more conventional films do. The music is often kind of a character in your films to the extent that sometimes you stop and watch someone perform a song.

I just want to make films that are personal, but interesting to an audience.

I wouldn't say that I'm particularly bothered or obsessed with detail.

I love working with actors. That's what the set really is, for me. It's my time with the actors.

Some of the ideas are kind of inspired by the songs, and I always want to use music to tell the story and give the movie a certain kind of mood. That's always essential to me.

What happened to your hand? It got hit by a mirror. How'd that happen? I lost my temper at myself.

May your light shine in the darkness.

Passion can’t sustain itselfforever.

Take solace in that, regardless of the fact that the love you had in your mind was lost, it was fairer than any, and you can take that with you forever.

I keep attacking the villains, the know-nothings, the people who want to take our freedoms away.

Pretending you know what you're doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you're doing even if you don't and do it.

Your fellowship with God never came because of your righteousness. So how could your own righteousness maintain it?

That's what I wanted for myself for even just a little while-to be unaware of the rest of the world. I needed some time.

Mind and intelligence are woven into the fabric of our universe in a way that altogether surpasses our understanding.

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

Where I'm from is like 'Hustle Flow' versus '8 Mile.' It's that really grimy, box-Chevy, dope-boy, working-class music.