You Quotes
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If you're from Oakland, and you're not a Raiders fan, then you're not from Oakland.
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The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
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There are a lot of competitive girls in the industry, so you just find the ones who share your mentality.
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Relationships can go wrong very simply, very quickly, and when you have children you become more aware of relationships around you.
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If you've got cockles, those nickel-size, heart-shaped mollusks, and you want to get fancy, steam them, then toss the meat in finely ground cornmeal.
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If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job.
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This may surprise you, but I was arrested in high school.
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Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
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Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.
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Very, very rare that you do a job knowing that the audience is desperate for you to do that job. Most films you make don't get released, is the fact.
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Because there are so many shows on and because I've been so hands-on - I've had a piece on almost every single week - I don't know how to cut back on that. You really can't.
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You can't hit what you can't see.
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Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.
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Posing on the red carpet feels like you're selling something that has nothing to do with you. If you do it with someone else, it's like we're saying, 'Oh! We come as a pair! Would you like to buy both of us? We're available for weddings and Bar Mitzvahs!'
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You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.
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Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature.
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The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.
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You can get awful famous in this country in seven days.
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You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.
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When you write fiction, you can sort of invent more but also pack it with emotions that are very pertinent to you. Whereas with nonfiction, you have to be as factual as possible but also hopefully - also bring... emotional relevance to the piece.
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You say 'African music' and you think 'tribal drumming.' But there's a lot of African music that's like James Brown, and a lot, too, that sounds very Hispanic.
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If you publish something in traditional media, it's one-way. With social media, we get all this info coming back from those who read our posts.
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Have you read 'The Grapes of Wrath?' That was my family. My dad was a sharecropper in western Oklahoma. When the dust storms came and everything got wiped out, they came to California. The guys with the mattresses on the tops of their cars in the movie? That was the way it was.
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Everywhere you hang your hat is home. Home is the bright cave under the hat.
