“I hated old people as a young kid who thought he knew anything about punk rock. I just thought old people sucked and I thought their opinions sucked.”
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“People who have a religion should be glad, for not everyone has the gift of believing in heavenly things.”
“Making films is - or should be - a very personal experience. You shouldn't listen to anybody, other than the people you choose to listen to.”
“I want to do # stage again, because there just aren't words for how great it is. People say that all the time, "There's nothing like live theater, blah blah," but it's really true. I see a show and I know how they feel, and it feels great.”
“I always work with refugees and I think they are the most amazing people and it's a privilege to spend time with them, so I will always.”
“I'd go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn't know who I was. And things just get really dark.”
“I honestly want to help. I don't believe I feel differently from other people. I think we all want justice and equality, a chance for a life with meaning.”
“No, no, no, I've just grown up too much to be hurt by what people's opinion of my love life is.”
“I wish there were easy answers to people's health questions. There aren't. There are answers, all right, but they are not easy.”
“I run a business. People want to work for less money, I pay them less money. ... Women shouldn’t be so grateful. Know what you’re worth. Walk away.”
“We have progressed from the stone age and moved on to the age of stone hearted people”
“Not everyone's life is what they make it. Some people's life is what other people make it.”
“The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.”
“Our problem mostly in our abuse of each other and the planet is greed. Just the rampant, incredible greed that people have partly because they're empty and they can't get enough because they're - you know, it's that Buddhist thing about the hungry ghost with the little mouth and the big belly.”
“Some people don't understand that it is the nature of the eye to have seen forever, and the nature of the mind to recall anything that was ever known.”
“I am not convinced that men and women were ever meant to share the same house, though some people can do it beautifully.”
“Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.”
“We're going to have to debunk the myth that Africa is a heaven for black people -- especially black women. We've been the mule of the world there and the mule of the world here.”
“Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you're getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.”
“Odinary people don't have a feeling of being loved by the people who manage to get into positions of leadership. They get in there, they make a lot of money, and then they play games with us.”