The conversation about race is inevitable. It's one that people know that we have to have and continue to have.

Like comedy, horror has an ability to provoke thought and further the conversation on real social issues in a very powerful way.

Sometimes blessings come in strange packages.

I look at racism as one of the social demons. And, in its worst, it's violent and it's a systemic commitment to oppression.

A greater truth that I think we are faced with on a day-to-day basis as minorities is: We are the color of skin first and people second.

How we act with each other really reveals our most animal instincts.

I can fathom anything, man. I love biting off more than I can chew and figuring it out.

[ When I met Barack Obama] He says, I do a pretty good me myself - he said something like that. But he's - he is a close talker. He's a touchy guy.

I just think racism is within each and every one of us. It's everyone's responsibility to figure out how they deal with this kind of obsolete instinct.

I think that human beings are the most awful monster we have ever seen.

We haven't done enough work to encourage minorities to strive to make movies. Hollywood is a place full of white male directors - there are many good ones. We just haven't nurtured our voices.

There is no relationship between bliss and peace. Peace is dependent on the pudgal (Complex of intake and output

Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing direction.

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue.

I keep hearing I'm a crazy party guy... I'm not. I'm boring... At least by party standards.

Art is a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are dead and those who are yet to be born.

Kitsch is the contemporary form of the Gothic, Rococo, Baroque.

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory

All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.

I get very deep into the writing and recording process.

Sport allows us to engage in dialogue and to build bridges, and it may even have the capacity to reshape international relations. The Olympic Games embody perfectly this universal mission.