Every ad for every film is exactly the same.

Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.

I never knew what I wanted, except that it was something I hadn't seen before.

[The Player is] not a truthful indictment of Hollywood. It's much uglier than I portrayed it, but nobody would've been interested if I'd shown just how sadistic, cruel and self-orientated it is.

Your own ego is the only trap that I think you can fall into.

I love fishing. You put that line in the water and you don't know what's on the other end. Your imagination is under there.

Chance is another name that we give to our mistakes. And all of the best things in my films are mistakes.

I don't think screenplay writing is the same as writing - I mean, I think it's blueprinting.

If you have a child who is seven feet tall, you don't cut off his head or his legs. You buy him a bigger bed and hope he plays basketball.

All of my films deal with the same thing: striving, socially and culturally, to stay alive.

What is an ending? There's no such thing. Death is the only ending.

But you can't get away from yourself. You can't decide not to see yourself anymore. You can't decide to turn off the noise in your head.

Perhaps the most tragic way that self-deception harms us is that we start believing our lies and we teach them to others.

Communication is the soul of all relationships. More than any other skill, it is the heartbeat of success in sales, marketing, marriage, business, friendship, communities, and beyond.

L'homme est une passion inutile. Man is a useless passion.

Being happy is more important than anything else.

Life isn't nearly as stable as we want it to be.

I'm the type of spiritual person that doesn't speak openly about their spirituality. Irony is probably my religion.

In the inner place where true artists create there exists a pure child.

I began in an era where four-letter words were not allowed.

You flirt with old people and babies and everybody in between.