You see a lot of Baptist churches in Harlem, you see a lot of the same kind of cuisine, the soul food - there's a lot of places that remind you of its southern roots.

Never say "never" about anything, because if you do, life has a way of humbling you.

History repeats itself over and over again, but most of us have short memories.

A lot of times in life, women want to talk, but men don't want to listen, and if they do want to listen, they turn it back to themselves.

Never take anything at face value. Dare to question and seek the truth.

The writers are very good about misdirection and changeups, and that's what's great about it. We always think we know what's going to happen and then they throw a curveball that you don't see coming.

Things don't happen that fast in real life.

Sometimes you meet someone at an inopportune moment and it doesn't work out, but then you see them again five years later and you're in different places and it's a better time.

I respond to women who have their stuff together, who are in charge, who don't need men to do things for them. I want a woman to have her own thing.

I see fans all the time. They're always very complimentary and they're always very eager to talk and to share their experiences or get a selfie. They're really, really loyal. And intense.

I'm embarrassed to say that I don't have a lot of hobbies. It's not because I don't have interests, it's just that I don't have the time.

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.

So friends, get out of your comfort zone. Don’t be afraid of pain. Confront your pains

You told me you would never leave me, but the only thing I feel is loneliness...

Roman Catholicism is a broken and utterly desperate thing, capable only of malignant mischief in our awakening world.

The application of GIS is limited only by the imagination of those who use it

History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another.

My films are the celebration of reality, of life, of my friends, of actual daily life that passes and is gone tomorrow. We don't pay attention to it when it happens.

One of the things that I have always been interested in is the actual experience of people in their lives as opposed to what we think their experience should be.

I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand.