"There has been a big debate about it: can a black man play a Nordic character?"

“A man is most accurately judged by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or to reciprocate.”

“Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“One must withdraw for a time from life in order to set down that picture.”

“Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.”

Source : "Remembering and Imagining the Holocaust: The Chain of Memory". Book by Christopher Bigsby, 2006.

“I've started many novels, and they all ended on page seven.”

“I know what it is to put on weight. But when I got back to my routine, my body knew how to react. That's muscle memory, and you'll be amazed at what it can do.”

“On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other.”

Source : Whole Earth Review, May 1985.

“I love kids; I think they are fun and funny.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.