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I'm so from the Woody Allen/Spike Lee school.
First episodes are difficult things to write.
You're dumber than you think I think you are.
Nobody got anything great by playing it safe.
Childhood was a fantastic country to live in.
You change or you hide your head in the sand.
I never write with particular actors in mind.
Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.
My role model, my idol, was Francois Truffaut.
We need more moral compasses and less Sat Navs
I like 'Paris is Burning' by Jennie Livington.
No god should ever be invoked to inflict harm.
If it happened to me, it can happen to anyone.
As we all know, blinking lights means science.
Don't just be yourself. Be all of your selves.
Never sit at a table you can’t walk away from.
Never sit at a table you can't walk away from.
I do try and keep my scripts quite economical.
Being a black person in America is exhausting.
Is it possible that there are no coincidences?
You have to be careful of the advice you take.
Irish and Italian are my two favourite people.
In the States I got asked to do every TV show.
Originally, 'Popular' was going to be a movie.
Forget the audience, make what you want to see
I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.
Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
Sand is overrated. It's just tiny little rocks.
We always want our leaders to be great leaders.
In the '80s, all the movies became predictable.
Most young American actors feel like teenagers.
I'm not big on regret. It's not on my schedule.
The rules are very important in a horror movie.
One man's frankness is another man's vulgarity.
Since when does a queen need an excuse to sing?
I'm a big believer in our connection to nature.
I don't feel, God dictated that I should write.
Writing is tough. It's insanely obsessive work.
I can feel my dreams but I can't remember them.
I want to be alone ... I just want to be alone.
I sound like Warhol but only because I'm tired.
Always go to the solitary drinker for the truth!
I'm trying to tell a story and do it truthfully.
Hold onto power and you lose your moral compass.
If I judged anybody I wouldn't have any friends.
He has a brain like Einstein's - dead since 1955
Actual violence has no attraction for me at all.
'Stardust' ended up being my first film in 2007.
I mean, the old film critics just excoriated me.
Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.