Imagining the overthrow of the current political system is the only way I can be enthused about politics.

Executive producers don't have to do anything. Nor do any kind of producers. They just sit around on deck chairs watching stuff, and if it gets cold, they leave. Actually I suppose as a producer you've got to be involved in helping out with solving problems.

The best thing you can do is fall in love. My life has been changed by falling in love.

I've come off heroin twice, and the worst part is laying in bed kicking and not being able to keep still. The physical withdrawal doesn't last that long, but then it's just all psychological. I think it's worse than cigarettes.

All penguins are the same below the surface, which I think is as perfect an analogy as we're likely to get for the futility of racism.

You must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from the idea that people are watching you.

I've always had this impulse to be destructive.