You must not allow yourself to be advised, cautioned, influenced, persuaded.

In New Orleans, you can pitch a rock and hit a great trumpeter..

The point is, you can't keep doing the same thing and expect it to keep working..

You got to keep your hand in your craft, otherwise you can rot at the roots and first thing you know, you got nothing..

There's a lot of freedom for me living in L.A..

To see what they see, sit where they sit..

Expect much of God, and he will do much for you..

Respect is fatal, isn't it?.

We cannot be damaged into health..

I would like to do some musicals..

I never took myself too seriously..

Let Revolutionists be Romans, not Tatars..

America promotes a lot of bad things, you know. Same-sex marriage, for example..

Freedom only exists when it doesn't belong to anybody..

I don't compete with others, but compete with myself..

I always have to do more to contribute to society..

Knowledge is after all a non-rivalrous good.

We are so much more undiscovered than we are discovered..

I've always been interested in making movies..

A day doesn't go by where I don't get surprised by something..

Someone once wrote that in between the lives we lead and the lives we fantasize about living is the place in our heads where most of us actually live..