You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current.

I'd consider myself a flailing comedy writer.

You know, 1% of us is in the armed forces, protecting the other 99, and they're all volunteers.

The only thing more intimidating than a huge international film star is your mother-in-law.

Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.

You never can take for granted that you have a job.

You never know when you'll have a bad idea for a worse joke.

You think of George Washington, this man who was larger than life, and in some ways he was. But at the same time, he's just a person.

If it doesn't feel like a job and I'm learning something and getting that rush that I get, I don't care if it's behind a camera, on a TV set, or on the moon.

Maybe I'm naive, but I subscribe to the idea that nobody is actually making strategic decisions about their career. Trying to do that would be like playing three-card monte on Canal Street.

The place I feel most at home is when I have health insurance. I really don't care how I get it, whether it's on film, or television or waiting tables, you know?

You can only inspire others when your heart is ready to sing the song of love.

When the trust between the police and the communities they serve breaks down, everyone is at risk.

All my theology is reduced to this narrow compass - "Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners."

Love guides the stars towards each other, the world plan endures only through love.

Yes, I know it. In the darkness of my dark beating heart, I know. He'd have loved it alright. You see? Even Death Has A Heart.

Animals teach us about the animals in ourselves. We need their spirits.

Sales = income. The reason so many people have low incomes is that they are poor at selling.

The reason I don't have a plan is because if I have a plan I'm limited to today's options.

Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.

I have a lot of actors I want to work with; Brad Pitt, Keanu Reeves, and Uma Thurman.