I'm not really worried about the flashy stuff. I don't got chains and cars. I spend what I need to spend. It doesn't faze me.

If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

I think I have stopped being nervous about the outcome of a film. The five consecutive flops in 1997 and the five consecutive hits in 1999 have mellowed me in many ways.

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

I'm very hands on about social media. That's my voice.

Before ICE, we had Immigration and Naturalization Services, but it wasn't until about 1999 that we chose to criminalize immigration at all. And then, once ICE was established, we really kind of militarized that enforcement to a degree that was previously unseen in the United States.

The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.

Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their enslavement.

I never talk about my next project.

You cannot see the changes that you're dreaming about, because they're internal.

I'm still living at least five parallel lives, honestly! I wonder about it. I have no idea how that happens.

People are rightfully upset about Wall Street abuses and excess.