In order to crash the party and be a clown with your own skit, you had to be there for quite a while.

Decisions made in real time are never perfect.

So much money and energy is expended making a film that I think it should be used for positive ends.

If it's a role like this one, an actual live person, a legend, there's lots of material laid out.

When people and animals die, they stay with us in our minds.

Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves.

If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow.

Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.

It's either the Amendment or this Confederate peace. You cannot have both.

Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries.

I don't think I could've carried the weight that Murrow carried.

Difficulties of life are valuable opportunities for self-discovery.

We talk a lot about the five senses: vision, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. I would add one more…imagination.

What's on the inside, beneath that sugar? Is it a bug? Is it a booger?

Not all sons were like their fathers. A son chose the man he would be.Not all daughters were like their fathers. A daughter monster chose the monster she would be.

True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.

You can't take it with you. There are no pockets in a shroud.

An autumn garden has a sadness when the sun is not shining.

Rap music came along and saved my life. I started to tell the stories of the streets and that was my way out.

I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me.

I mean everyone, from Al Pacino to Murphy Guyer, are phenomenal actors.