You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do you have?'

Worry is interest paid in advance on a debt that never comes due.

The government, for example, has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people, and, so, must be given certain preferences. Anyone acquainted with both black and white people knows this assessment is not only absurd but monstrous. And yet it is the law.

Every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?"

The dream and the film are the juxtaposition of images in order to answer a question.

My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library. I got what little educational foundation I got in the third-floor reading room, under the tutelage of a Coca-Cola sign.

If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals, and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes, and yet the government, of course, is arming criminals.