I knew, back when I was starting up, that if I had something that could be developed for the mass market, I could really take it forward.
The inability to pass reasonable gun safety laws after the Newtown massacre is something that weighs heavily on my mind.
I want to be taken out of our material world and experience something that is in another dimension.
I knew a lot of black scientists, engineers, and mathematicians, and female mathematicians and engineers, women of all backgrounds. So this idea that anyone could be an engineer, a mathematician, or whatever, was something that I had grown up with and thought was really normal.
I wanted to do 'Matrix' because when I saw the first one, I was in Paris, and I came out from the movie and said, 'Wow - I've never seen something like that; it's so incredible.'
I'm kind of ADD in that sense where if I start liking something, I'll just learn it to the absolute max.
Don't just eat McDonald's, get something a bit better. Eat a salad. That's what fashion is. It's something that is a bit better.
The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.
If I have something to say, I want it to be meaningful.
I'm the classic absent-minded professor: I'm very focused on something, and meanwhile, I've left the refrigerator door open for hours.
There's something very old-fashioned and luxurious to have a pair of pants and jacket made to your needs and measurements.
If I do something for my kids, I get a medal, because most fathers don't.
You don't get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.
A fantasy novel set in something other than medieval Europe, featuring an almost entirely black cast, is considered risky.
I would rather write or record something great and have it overlooked than do mediocre work and have it be popular.
I meditate and I also think about meditation. Which is funny. I think about Maharishi, about just the idea of meditating. It gives me something.
Something like 'Knock Knock,' I was trying to do a Joe Meek, 'Johnny Remember Me'-type thing.
People respond to something melodic.
Unless it's something very clever like 'Memento,' most independent films have a very tough life out there.
For memes, I have an entire iPhone folder of photos that I've taken or saved because I find something about them hilarious.
