There are so many romantic comedies made, but very few dramas or love stories. And with a love story, you have to take time to develop three-dimensional characters.

Be passionate about your [movie] material, because you're going to have to overcome a lot of "No's," and it's that passion that fuels the fight.

A classic is a classic for a reason. Let's try to create new classics. The idea of repeating ourselves drives me a little crazy.

I want us to have it all, love and career. It's a struggle sometime to achieve that, but I love the struggle.

In film school, I knew I wanted to be a director, but I found out pretty damn quickly that nobody was just going to hand me a script to direct.

I write to music, and Nina Simone is always on my playlist to write to. I mean, shes inspiring. She's truthful and real and raw.

I write to music, so every script I have has its own playlist. Music just opens me up to the emotions that I'm writing.

Sports also teaches you that it's about the team, and the better your teammates are, the better they make you.

I grew up with white parents and until after college, it was a lot of confusion, especially because I grew up in an all-white area. So I never looked around and saw anyone who looked like me.

I love movies. And I dig a great love story: the kind that wrecks me, then builds me back up and leaves me inspired. I write what I want to see.

At war, there's no right or wrong.Winner's right while loser's wrong.

Remember that the only God man comes in contact with is his own God, called Spirit, Soul and Mind, or Consciousness, and these three are one.

You can't out-travel sadness. I travel not to get away from my troubles but to see how they look in front of famous buildings

Along a series of lines running from longer to shorter wavelengths the effect of the electric field becomes greater as the serial numbers increase - that is, as the wavelength decreases.

God did not have time to make a nobody, so you're a somebody.

Unless it's done superbly, as in the Japanese film Gate of Hell, color can be a very distracting element.

The good ideas will survive.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

The real is behind and beyond words, incommunicable, directly experienced, explosive in its effect on the mind. It is easily had when nothing else is wanted.

Consider those whom you call your enemies and figure out what they should call you.