I've never been a part of a film before that offers such a platform into real issues, that raises social awareness and has the potential to change things.

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.

There is but one just use of power, and it is to serve people.

The chandelier's teardrop crystals twinkled above them like stars. It was easy to imagine that they were miles away from London, and that only the two of them existed.

My love for ice cream emerged at an early age - and has never left!

Art shouldn't be only the aesthetics we hang on the wall, but a dynamic to shape the society.

Maybe the paths that you each shall tread are already laid before your feet though you do not see them

The burden of regret can weigh us down heavily on our spiritual journey. The best way to release regret is to forgive ourselves.

I was never motivated by money. I think above all else about the happiness of my family, regardless of money.

The answer is inside your head; it's easy to find if you take it logically.

Love is the best medicine.

The old prose writers wrote as if they were speaking to an audience; while, among us, prose is invariably written for the eye alone.