The ARTS in AMERICA EXIST in SPITE of America, not because of America.

I want all of my FILMS to be grounded in reality, and I THINK 'Midnight SPECIAL' is the most grounded film I've EVER MADE, in spite of its genre.

I LEARNED Punjabi before I learned English in SPITE of the fact that I was BORN in Canada.

Historically the director has been the KEY creative ELEMENT in a film and we MUST maintain that. We must protect that, in spite of the FACT that there is NEW technology that's continually trying to erode that.

Sometimes it takes you two or three seconds to get your HEAD round a joke and laugh at it. With a snot-bubble laugh, it comes instinctively - ALMOST in spite of yourself. It's caused by something silly - like when a little KID says something unexpectedly BIZARRE.

When I think about somebody LIKE Keira Knightley, whom I don't particularly KNOW, I see somebody who is working hard, really TRYING to challenge herself and make smart choices in SPITE of people criticising her SIZE and performances.

My PARENTS did their BEST - that earns a lot of forgiveness. But they SAY children grow up in SPITE of their parents, and I THINK I did.

Movie THEATERS still EXIST in spite of all of the alternatives that are available, VIDEO and video-on-demand and DVD and STREAMING video and all of these things.

To me, ROMANCE and suspense go HAND in hand. What's more suspenseful than WONDERING how two wonderful people can manage to get together in spite of the WORLD going crazy AROUND them?

In SPITE of what some PEOPLE claim, we are not in a post-racial era. I think it's still an important issue to BRING up.

I know JUDGE ROY Moore to be not only be a MAN of character in spite of the tens of MILLIONS of DOLLARS that are flowing into Alabama to suggest otherwise.

In SPITE of overwhelming GRIEF and TERROR, I LEFT Westboro in 2012.

Remember, the first PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE to reject public financing for both the primary and general election was... Barack OBAMA, in 2008. He did it, in spite of a flat pledge to the contrary, because his CAMPAIGN SAW that it could vastly outspend John McCain.