That's what's inspiring to me - finding someplace where people haven't already seen themselves in a certain light.

How you treat:-the mailman-the cashier-the garbage man-the usher-the custodian-the receptionist-the uber driversays A LOT about you.

You know, he said, our work is difficult: we confrontmuch sorrow and disappointment.He gazed at me with increasing frankness.I was like you once, he added, in love with turbulence.

A clash of doctrine is not a disaster, it is an opportunity.

It's exciting to try to do something in a totally different way - to bring out something totally different in me as a filmmaker. It's time to try something totally different.

One knows one's madnesses, by and large. By and large the knowledge is vacuous. The notion of naming the beast to conquer it is the idiot optimism of psychotherapy.

I like the fact that I'm living in the world rather than in a university.

And here it will end, one way or the other," she whispered again

Mark my words, my rap career [is] on the rise.

Families, can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em.

The goal is not to simply eliminate the bad, which does nothing more than leave you with a vacuum, but to pursue and experience the best in the world.