Fiction either moves mountains or it's boring; it moves mountains or it sits on its ass.

I've noticed that, while I can't help but respect and sort of envy the moral nerve of people who truly do not care what others think of them, people like this also make me nervous, and I tend to do my admiring from a safe distance.

Try to let what is unfair teach you.

An ad that pretends to be art is – at absolute best – like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you.

Whitney Houston was a laser beam ... She always gave me better than what I asked for in the studio

CPR to those elements of what’s human and magical that still live and glow despite the times’ darkness.

How totally banal of you to ask what I really mean.