[Cinema]… obeys the laws of the mind rather than those of the outer world.

The story of the subconscious mind can be told in three words: there is none.

I firmly believe a great many prayers are not answered because we are not willing to forgive someone.

I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back. And, most surprising of all, that I could carry it.

Virtue consists in fleeing vice.

Nothing teaches you as much about writing dialogue as listening to it.

I was just totally taken by Michael Jackson when I was a little kid, like everyone else.

There's no soul in perfection.

Fire is the spirit of candle and honesty is the spirit of man. Without spirit, there shall be no light but darkness

There's a very fine line between being artistic and being a dickhead - it's like love and hate.

If teachers and grammar school editors find my jawbreaker sentences shatter their mushmilk teeth, let them eat stale cake dunked in weak tea of their own ungodly manufacture.

There is, to be sure, sometimes only a small difference between being alert to possible danger and allowing oneself to become terrified to the point of paralysis by seeming or imagined portents.