Less money sometimes allows you to be more creative.

When I do short films, I try to do something completely out of my comfort zone, out of my element.

There's no difference between a tacky Jew from Miami and a rap star. They both want the Cadillac and the Rolex with the diamonds.

I fear God and respect God and love God.

When you're fearless, you take more risks because you're less conscious of failure or what can go wrong.

'Vacation' means titillating my taste buds.

I would love a robot butler.

I don't have any regrets.

I’m a hypochondriac. Before I go all the way, I send the girl to the doctor and check them for everything. My doctor has a test to tell if you’re going to catch something in the future even.

I learn from every movie I do because on every movie, I have a different experience.

My mom had me when she was 16, and I was an only child, which is probably why I received a lot of love and didn't miss that my father wasn't around.

I think that literary forms are losing their capacity to connect people to issues, to the experiences that feel most meaningful to them.

The truth comes when you can see that your self-image is just a convenient reference point and nothing more, and that you as you had imagined yourself do not exist.

I crocheted a blanket larger than a king-size bed. I just kept going.

A sense of shame is not a bad moral compass.

The inner cry is a very good way to meditate. As you're sitting there in meditation, just cry inwardly to God, to that source, to your spiritual teacher or to a particular god or goddess.

I understand that Donald's [Trump] been strongly supported by the NRA. The gun lobby's on his side. They're running millions of dollars of ads against me.

By exercising your stomach muscles, you wring out the body, you don't catch colds, you don't get cancer, you don't get hernias. Do animals get hernias? Do animals go on diets?

They can see their neighbors. Roosters and dogs can be heard from there. Still, they will age and die without visiting one another.

I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept anything without wishing I had given it away.

We cannot overlook the importance of wild country as source of inspiration, to which we give expression in writing, in poetry, drawing and painting, in mountaineering, or in just being there.