The new fashion is to talk about the most private parts of your life; other fashion is to repent of your excesses and to criticize the drugs that made you happy in the other times.

Polarization affects families and groups of friends. Its a paralyzing situation. A civil war of opinion.

It's nice to collect stamps, but if it becomes obsessive, and you start stealing for your stamps, it becomes too much.

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

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.

The only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness.

I don't watch much ESPN. Unless they have soccer on.