It feels dangerous when people say, 'Oh, Sean Baker focuses on marginalised people.' And offensive. As if I'm standing there with my planner thinking, 'OK, where's the next marginalised group I can make a movie about?'

I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.

My childhood dream was always to be on Broadway. I wanted to end up in TV and film. It's kind of flipped, and I'm not mad about it, but my childhood dream is Broadway and I want to end up there.

I was kind of influenced by the hip-hop culture.

At first when I heard about climate change, I was a climate denier. I didn't think it was happening. Because if there really was an existential crisis like that, that would threaten our civilisation, we wouldn't be focusing on anything else. That would be our first priority. So I didn't understand how that added up.

French citizenship should be either inherited or merited.

The elements, if arranged according to their atomic weights, exhibit an apparent periodicity of properties.

Fatherhood made everything more straightforward. I was relieved that no longer did I have to agonise over what meaning I had in my life.

Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.

I think all 32 teams have the goal of winning a championship, that goes without saying.

White rice, not traditionally healthy, is easier on my tummy and lets me eat more.

I think of myself as a Russophile. I speak the language and studied the nation's literature and history in college.

Our nation has slashed budgets for education, job training, economic development, and drug treatment while investing billions in prisons and militarized police. A penal system unprecedented in world history has been born. Millions have been arrested and stripped of basic civil and human rights.

If a child in its first thousand days - from conception to two years old - does not have adequate nutrition, the damage is irreversible.

I don't think I would change really anything about rap. Rap don't have no limits to it, and I like it like that.

There's nothing wrong with being an actor, if that's what a man wants. But there's everything wrong with achieving an exalted status, simply because one photographs well and is able to handle dialogue put in one's mouth by others.

I think everybody goes through times where they're vulnerable and then times where you're confident and cocky.

I think I fell in love with Singapore.

Honestly, when I was back in school I would eat anything and everything but now when I'm shooting, I eat clean.

Libertarians regard the state as the Supreme, the eternal, the best organized aggressor against the persons and property of the mass of the public. All states everywhere, whether democratic, dictatorial, or monarchical, whether red, white, blue or brown.