Castro, without question, is one of the smartest politicians that's ever walked.

I look at other filmmakers and see skills in them that I wish I had but I know that I don't. I feel like I have to work really hard to keep myself afloat, doing what I do. But I find it pleasurable.

I have a friend whose theory is that you're from wherever you went to high school. I think that's mostly true.

A big part of making an album is that you want to have enough material - you want to have enough stuff for people to hear and know that it represents you. So it does sometimes turn into a situation where you're saying to the person you're working with, "Well, what do you want?" But then there are other times when I work with people and they'll turn to me and say, "How do you want to do this?" And that's actually when I work best.

When things go right it's hard to figure out why, but when things go wrong it's really easy.

My experience over the years with working with people who are not actors or not trained actors is that you have to get to know them well enough to see what they have that's translatable onto the screen.

The key is, if youre not monkeying around with the script, then everything usually goes pretty well.