Don’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.

Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.

I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.

Americans are funny people: first you shock them, then they put you in a museum.

I was never that interested in business, to be honest. I do the minimal amount of business as possible because I'm not actually interested in it as a thing. But some people are interested in it, and there's nothing wrong with that.

I don't spend money on anything. I don't collect anything. I don't spend it on furniture.

I would hate to say as a non-African-American person that it would be wrong for a black person to direct white people in a movie. Wouldn't that be awful of me to say that? The only sympathizing thing I might say for people that want to [grumble] is that a filmmaker should have an understanding for the place where the people you're portraying are coming from.