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The good guys in my movies mind their own business, and they don't judge other people. And the bad guys are jealous; they judge other people without knowing the whole story. They want all the attention, and they're mean spirited.

Think about all of the non-entrepreneurial advice and resources you need when building a company. You need lawyers, accountants, financial experts.

Life is simply a labour of love.

The difference between getting somewhere and nowhere is the courage to make an early start.

The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.

Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan.

Crying can bring relief, as long as you don't cry alone.

Everybody feels like an outcast because the world is so large and every fingerprint is so vastly different from one another, and yet we have these standards and beliefs, and dogmatic systems of judgment and ranking, in almost all the societies of the world.

When you get fat, you get a new personality. You can't help it. Complete strangers ascribe it to you.

Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul.

Pale ink is better than the most retentive memory.

While the world may feel entitled and have the power to pronounce an individual crazy, are there times when the innocent genius, the insightful individual or just the old grandmother may reasonably declare the world to be mad? Probably, but what hope or happiness would such an individual have?

'Ice Age' felt like stage acting. You'd write a sequence, and sometimes you'd submit pages, but other times, I would actually perform it for the directors and producer in my office.

I'm often associated with parallel narratives or dual narratives. The 'Devil in the White City' was a fluke.

We're at unique point in history where the things that we are building are going to significantly impact our social, political, economical, and personal lives.

I'm very carefree - I wear whatever I want.

I'm hopefully a grain of sugar in God's cup of green tea.

It was said that Chile was not ready to vote for a woman, it was traditionally a sexist country. In the end, the reverse happened: the fact of being a woman became a symbol of the process of cultural change the country was undergoing.

Anything that's on television as often as someone on 'The X Factor' is what's successful. That doesn't mean that I condone that or think that it's right. To be honest, I'd be the first to say I think it's a shame. But if that's the way it is then that's the way it is.

My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation.