"You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies."

"But when I felt like I had something to prove? Then I got up early every morning and worked all day long. I didn't know if I had any more talent than anyone else directing, but I knew I could work hard at it, and so I did."

"I grew up in a house with a mother who was a teacher and a Freedom Rider - very left-wing Democrats living in a heterogeneous working-class neighborhood. I picked up a lot of those values there, and I brought them with me when I showed up in Hollywood."

"I just feel like sometimes I'm a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It's not easy being me."

"It's not tyranny we desire it's a just, limited, federal government."

"The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them."

"True innovation is born when curiosity dares to question long-settled assumptions. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows."

"We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace."