Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing.

We live in a time where there's an alienation factor. There's a certain disconnection. We don't have any real sense of community anymore.

Racism is ridiculous no matter where it's coming from.

I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.

I'm at the point in my life where I don't want to work as hard. Actually, I've had to take a good hard look at workaholism and it's effect on one's mental health.

Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.

It's a lot harder to find fault with the mundane details of daily existence when you really, really know on a cellular level that you're going to go, and that this moment, right now, is life. Life isn't what happens to you in 20 years. This moment, right now, is your life.