I've always benefited from knowing machines well, because it's freedom, it gives you freedom, I always knew that.

You know what, it's not your life, it's life. Life is bigger than you, if you can imagine that. Life isn't something that you possess, it's something that you take part in and witness.

I thought about going to NYU film school - that was this ideal to me. But I didn't make any kind of grades in high school.

You have to be able to do a bunch of things at once, and not think about things you're not doing while you're doing other things. You have to be disciplined about not trying to do everything, all at the same time. It's hard and fun.

Look at all the minorities around here! I'm the only majority.

Every year white people add 100 years to how long ago slavery was. I've heard educated white people say, 'slavery was 400 years ago.' No it very wasn't. It was 140 years ago...that's two 70-year-old ladies living and dying back to back. That's how recently you could buy a guy.

If I owned a network, I would never let a guy just put people on without telling me who they are.