有不虞之誉，有求全之毁。
有时会得到未曾料到的赞美声誉，有时会碰到求全苛责的毁谤攻击。
成为你自己故事的英雄。
The only thing I can promise you is that I will always be myself.
事实是，男人和女人是不同的，这些差异应该被庆祝，而不是被抹去。
The hardest thing about being a director is figuring out what to do next.
我厌倦了被操纵的感觉。这种压迫是如此的真实！他们在制造谎言，这些谎言同样遍布史书中。你们必须知道，所有的流行音乐，从爵士到摇滚再到hip-hop，还有舞曲，这些都是黑人所创造的！但他们都被历史扫进角落里！你从未见过一个黑人出现在史书封面，你只会看到猫王和滚石乐队。可究竟谁才是它真正的先驱呢？
The poet must be a seer, make himself a seer.
I want to liberate America from fear. I want people to be afraid of the things that are really scary, like war and famine, not their neighbor because he has a different religion.
The more acute the experience, the less articulate its expression.
每一个生命都是一个故事，每一个故事都是一个生命。