“One of my favorite things I read was John Steinbeck's journals while he was writing 'East of Eden,' which was so cool.”

“My first paying job might have been doing a play, actually. My mom paid me to dress up as a flounder at my sister's 'Little Mermaid' - themed birthday party when I was little.”

“Homeless people really upset me when I was little. A lot of kids have this reaction, but I would get really worried or sad or concerned or cry.”

“Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see it's not an issue of black and...”

“I like the way Quentin Tarantino creates a scene using a series of close-ups or showing very cool images of a person or people walking on some ordinary street in slow motion. I wish I could achieve...”

“When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.”

“Tragedy is like a strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.”

“It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in suchan inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, theirabsolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire l...”

“Receive what cheer you may. The night is long that never finds the day.”