I think the entire world is going to be united against us.

I don't like the word 'calculated' because it sounds pejorative. Intentional. Intentional is better, I think. Wild in passion and intentional in expression.

You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do.

The capacity of young people to persevere, even under the most adverse conditions, never ceases to amaze me.

You can run the office without a boss, but you can't run an office without secretaries.

So much conspires to silence us - because our truths are inherently subversive.

My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the Grapes of Wrath, his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day.