The really important kind of freedom involves...being able truly to care about other people...

We are who people think we are.

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.

I don’t really mean what I’m saying.

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

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

You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't.