I was screaming constantly, on the set, in my room... everywhere.

You want a lesson? I'll give you a lesson. How about a geography lesson? My father's from Puerto Rico. My mother's from El Salvador. And neither one of those is Mexico.

Waitressing - by far the worst job ever created.

Give me civilization. I don't want to be pampered.

If I moved, he moved. If I stopped, he stopped. It was a duel.

I was screaming constantly, on the set, in my room... everywhere.

Well, I'm Italian, but my family isn't stereotypical. I mean, I only have one sister and we don't yell or throw pasta at each other. My mother doesn't even have a secret spaghetti sauce recipe.

It's very easy to fall in love when things are great, but the way to really fall in love is when things aren't great.

Staying true to our goals, Question Bridge as a company and as a project is not singularly about black males. One of the things I'm so excited about Question Bridge is that my vision goes far beyond black males.

America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.

The taking of life is too absolute, too irreversible, for one human being to inflict on another, even when backed by legal process . Where the death penalty persists, conditions for those awaiting execution are often horrifying, leading to aggravated suffering.

And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death.

I never strike out at any life form. The only things I attack are icons of conspicuous consumption. People put objects in front of their life, in front of anything that has real importance. They make this 'thing' their God.

My son lives in Nicaragua. My daughters live in the United States.

Out of all the places in the world, Jamaica is my favorite place.

According to my mother, there pretty much wasn't anything I wouldn't eat as a child. Not just try, but eat. I was even inclined to dig into stuff about which she expressed open disgust - lobster and other shellfish, and cheap Chinese food with pepper so hot it made your gums feel like a medieval dentist had been at them.

I'm not opposed to adoption. It's not in my immediate future because I'm on the move a lot and if I were going to be father I would like to be more grounded.

I'm a Nickelback guy.

The private sector doesn't sit around and say - 'Well, since the president said we should do this, we should do it.'

I took all my TV experience and what I learned about - by writing and directing and bringing a movie to Sundance - about the realities of the independent film market: 'Transparent' is the marriage of those two situations.

I had two older brothers, so I was always competing with them. The guys I grew up with on the golf course, when I was 13, they were 15 or 16, and I was always trying to beat them.

Work needs to be a reflection of your social values. You are how you work!

Certainly, anyone whom I've witnessed, who has gone through something horrible and life-changing, has a sense of ironic humor, or an ability to look at the peculiarities of the world and find humor in it.

There have been bombings by extremists. They are not representatives of Islam. They're not representative of the vast majority of people who love this country, but nonetheless, they exist.

We're all terminal; none of us are getting out of this alive.

Street artists need to get back to actually doing things on the streets instead of in the galleries where they all seem to be ending up. I hope this term 'street artist' falls from the face of the earth, in my honest opinion.

I grew up doing sitcoms and theater and even playing with the Beach Boys, where you're programmed to perform, your body gets into a rhythm and you know it has to perform.

Tuesday is the day I actually start the week, Monday I just deal with the depression of the weekend ending.

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.

My hope is that one day I'll be able to work and have a quieter life, but still a creative life.

No culture that has ever embraced homosexuality has survived.