Institutional discrimination shapes destinies more than individual effort.

It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."

I never really thought about being a director. I just wanted to make good movies.

始终对研究的局限性保持透明。

一个社会的竞争优势不是来自学校把乘法和元素周期表教得多么好，而是来自他们激发学生想象力和创造力的程度。