I can't stay within the constructs of societal expectations.

I don't think you should limit what you read.

What makes a good festival, above all, is the audience. It feels disconnected when it's meant to bring in people from elsewhere and not meant for the people who actually live there.

Like a physical body, a body politic must have an immune system that resists anti-Semitism and other forums of hatred.

I call my ring Procter and Gamble, because David paid for it through his first commercial from Head & Shoulders. When I met David, he was waiting tables. He was below broke, in deep debt, but I...

I have been married twice, but both of my wives have been too bright to be sucked in by women's lib.

If you have your own agenda and your own style and you don't easily conform to what the masses are doing, you're looked upon as being difficult. Whereas, I think of it as just being an individual.

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.

It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.

I found Spotted Tail's lodge. He invited me to enter.

Film and television are just different. Film is cool because it's a complete package. You know the beginning, middle, and end. You can plan it out more, which I like. But with television you get a new...

I would not have one turntable if my brother didn't buy the turntable. I was the dreamer; he was the doer.

Chicago - it's the Midwest, and the people are not as tough or not as edgy as they are in New York.

I did a guest thing on 'My Name Is Earl,' and there is something about being involved in a TV show that's in the midst of its popularity that frees up the creative process.

There's sort of a persistent misperception that talking about race is black folk's burden. Ultimately, only men can end sexism, and only white people can end racism.

You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable,...

I'm supposed to be neutral when I do my job. But I'm a fan and I have my favorites.

The future of design is a future where anything material in the environment - whether it's wearables, cars, buildings - can be designed with this variation of properties and relationship with the...

When you tour as much as I do, you're always on the road, and you tend to gravitate toward cities where you're like, 'Every time I'm in that city, the shows are fun.'

In our business we don't mind if a price of a ticket goes down; our job is to get as many bums in seats as possible.

Obama's gift for delivering set-piece oratorical tours de force had special resonance to Americans fed up with a president who could hardly string two words together without a collision of syntax and...

When I created Buffy, I wanted to create a female icon, but I also wanted to be very careful to surround her with men that not only have no problem with the idea of a female leader, but were in fact...

I come from a theatrical background, where, if you're working on a movie or a play, you always respect the people you work with. You're accommodating.

It's a question of dropping the armor and getting up and doing the work you want to do. And film at first is frightening because you are like, 'What's that camera doing?' But then it becomes family...

I believe there is true expertise in some endeavors, and not in others. There is obviously no such thing as expertise in predicting the results of coin tosses, but there is expertise in predicting the...

I am always looking for that nuance, that moment of truth, and you can't really do that fast.

I wasn't one of those kids who was like, 'Get me to New York. Get me to a big city.' I was always much more shy. All I knew was that I loved to act.

I figured my body always would be able to repair itself. I think all of us believe that - until you begin to age and get hit with deteriorating joints.

Rapping is my dream, but my kids make me happy.

I don't understand why God took him and didn't take me.