We’re all beautiful. We all deserve attention.

Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.

My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preached that the pen is mightier than a Molotov cocktail.

It's less about what you do and more about who you are doing it with.

Media used to be one way. Everyone else in the world just had to listen. Now the internet is allowing what used to be a monologue to become a dialogue. I think that's healthy.

If you're going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone.

The Sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all disappear.

The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.

If you know which way the current is going, you can use it to your advantage.

The Internet is allowing us to get back to what's really more natural, which is that storytelling is a shared thing. It's our natural way to be communal.

When I was Younger, I wanted to be something.Now, I just want to be younger.

There is greater clarity in the still waters of sadness, something not found in the babbling brooks of more sought after emotions.

The Sudanese government has been playing games with the world, with the Africa Union, in particular, have been playing for time in order to conclude its mission of ethnic cleansing in the Sudan.

The young artist of today need no longer say 'I am a painter,' or 'a poet,' or 'a dancer.' He is simply an 'artist.' All of life will be open to him.

If you love your craft there will be passion. Most of my films are with people who are really passionate about what they are doing and know how to do something well.

Only the disenfranchised can party with abandon.

I cringe when I watch myself on TV.

You ought to be able to grow up in a place and not have to get the hell out of it when you turn eighteen.

You don't want to shock them and do something totally opposite, but you also want to play a different character.

We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them.