When you get to play with the big boys, your game improves drastically.

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.

Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together.

It is important to tell good stories. You can tell stories even if they are not huge, epic, and wonderful. You can still take the responsibility for being a scribe of your tribe.

America makes up its own mind about what it wants to see.

I knew I was happy when I was dancing.

There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold.

The camera is interested in what you are thinking as opposed to just what you are doing or saying.

It is important to keep your head up and follow what you believe is right.

I got heavily into the drum-and-bass scene, which is really wicked.

My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part.

Love and war are exactly alike. It is lawful to use tricks and slights to obtain a desired end.

Oh, yeah?" Leo growled. "Well, maybe you got the smoke, buddy, but I've got the fire.

Having a baby changes the way you view your in-laws. I love it when they come to visit now. They can hold the baby and I can go out.

War, we have come to believe, is a spectator sport. The military and the press have turned war into a vast video arcade game. Its very essence-death-is hidden from public view.

Everyone goes to rotten schools when they're kids, don't they?

I have nothing to lose, but something to gain.

Kids don't have ruts yet that adults have carved into their minds. They're born logical. Crooked thinking has to be taught.

When you love something, you'll always come back to it. You'll always keep asking questions, and finding answers.

unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.

Paul had an almost missionary companion. His name was Demas. Paul wrote his entire history in nine words. He says: Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world.