I fear waking up one morning and finding out my life was all for nothing. We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark. When you're kind to someone in trouble, you hope they remember and are kind to someone else and so on. Soon it will be like a wildfire.

Taking action is hard, but know what? Enduring a bad situation can be its own hell.

The people who can be helping to make movies that have blacks and Latinos and women and all that - that movie doesn't come to you. Because the idea is that there's no place for black movies.

If I was doing a talk show, I would do the kind of show that comes on just once a month, with amazing guests.

I say if you're worried, vote smart. Vote smart.

[On lightweight movies:] Fun movies. They were never meant to cure cancer, only to take away the mind.

I want Carl Sagan to explain the sky to me.