Every adaptation requires that the screenwriter make difficult choices - and in particular, difficult cuts.

I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.

I've never flown a kite.

This is good, life must continue, we are fighting barbarians, but we must remain human.

Every time something bad happens, like we lose a day because of weather or an actor gets injured or anything else happens, the schedule has to change. It's the most challenging Tetris puzzle.

Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.

Once you realise that heroes die, everything becomes that much more terrifying.

Contrary to popular belief, the experience of terror does not make you braver. Perhaps though, it is easier to hide your fear when you're afraid all the time.

You don't like the girl. You don't know what color eyes she has, you don't like her.

the lonliest sound in the world is other people making love.

I was like a well trained pianist who knows which note to hit, but can't make the music his own.

Progress is hard on history.

The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an awful hurry.

I will tell you with 100 percent confidence, Jon Jones is not deep in my head. The fact he actually thinks that, it makes me smile every day.

What is the world but a boxing ring where fools and devils put up their fists?

The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.

Most people's personalities and roles are locked by the time they're nine or 10. I think there's something to that.

Humility has tremendous power. Think of Gandhi. That was humility in action. He changed the shape of an entire nation.

It is an actor's defect. I want everybody to like me, so I'll say what I think will please them.

Michael Taylor is not being executed for homicide. Michael Taylor is being executed for raping a white female.

At the heart of my metaphysic there is the ultimate question and at the heart of the universe there is the ultimate questioner.