When I was younger, I did dark movies. It was a reflection of what I saw around me.

Most of us want to live in harmony and peace and be good to others. Right now, however, the world is in a very turbulent time, and our leadership has gone crazy.

A movie should entertain you in a way that will also open your mind. I think movies are tools to enrich your experience.

I don't read the news anymore because I know it would make me depressed. So instead, I make beauty. I make movies.

Humanity has survived because the strong among us have, in the past, been obliged to help the weak. Without this, we would not survive.

As a filmmaker, you take reality and you tell a story from it.

I feel like my job is to give hope. The world is in a dark place and we are living in somewhat of a nightmare. So I want to make films to give hope.

As a human being, I will always feel that where there is oppression, I am with the underdog.

This is what art can do in our time. Unite people, and give them hope.

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.

Being a good host offsets the deprivation and loneliness of my youth

Confidence isn't something you prove to people, it's something that comes off from who you are and how you represent yourself.

The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.

Hey birthers, wanna hear my theory? My theory was that Obama was born in America and you were born with the umbilical cord around your neck.

When something happens to you, you have two choices in how to deal with it. You can either get bitter, or get better.

You should be able to do anything you can afford as an adult.

People tend to believe that to be modern you have to disengage from your heritage, but it's not true.

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.

Those who live to live forever, never fear dying.