And I wanted Jordan, because if he wanted me back it would mean I wasn't ordinary. A guy like him wouldn't settle for that.

She's pretty in a familiar kind of way that I forget to notice, until someone else notices and I'm reminded.

Courage isn't something you can conjure, it's either in you or it's not.

Jordan Mullen is looking at me like I'm something he wants to scrape off his shoe and right then my heart breaks, but somehow beats on.

I'm forty-two, " he said. "That's eighty-four in musician years.

We may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living.

I really never thought I was that good at film. And honestly still don't. My strength is language. My background is monologues and a certain kind of Brechtian spin on theater.

Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake.

Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture resolves these tensions without eliminating them.

I firmly believe that the only reason why I'm on this planet, the only reason why I live, breathe, and exist is, that it's my duty to be as honest as possible in my art.

As often happens during a war, some parts of the country prospered, notwithstanding the constant loss.

When people don't take time out, they stop being productive.

There’s only one thing worse than not satisfying a desire. And that is not to feel any desire.

It is profitable wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and pains are spared in not flattering ourselves against probabilities.