“It may sound weird, but I don’t really look for culture, particularly in an American city.”

We don’t need a two-party system. We need something else. Because at this point, the two-party system is really just a one-party system. And that one party is crumbling.

The population has to be educated about how the government actually works.

In USA culture is just a matter of commerce. So, you know, I don’t really look for that, and I don’t expect to find it in any city.

I do the interviews and then I read about myself. I understand it and I get what it is. But there’s so much stuff that I say, either jokingly or lightheartedly, that gets printed like I’m dead serious.

Fluid and energetic and wild very, very smart and very, very funny.

I wonder what it means when your grandson is more crotchety than you are.

Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.

We have to confront the very scary fact that the president is a moron. He’s really dumb.

I think there’s a lot of good and bad to L.A. One of the things you have to consider is that you can, if you’re lucky, make a decent living here. That’s a big plus. That’s pretty positive. The weather is OK.

I cannot be made into the commentator for the unspoken black masses.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I’ll have no ego to injure.

When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.

Obviously, there’s a million things we’re allowed to say on late-night cable that you’re not allowed to say on a prime time broadcast.

And I’m not so in love with making people mad that I want to live my life around it.

I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.

One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let’s say it this way: I’m really late.

In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.

Like all magic cultures expressed by appropriate hieroglyphs, the true theater has its shadows too, and, of all languages and all arts, the theater is the only one left whose shadows have shattered their limitations.

Don’t tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones.

Battle rap is a culture. That’s boxing, it’s like boxing.

As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that’s less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.

Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can’t limit it to one particular culture.

The Civic Culture (and The Civic Culture Revisited) remains the best study of comparative political culture in our time.

The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you’re reaching people.