Everybody has a background. Everybody has a past. Not everybody's the same person all the way through.

The amount of piracy is extraordinary. People don't realize how big it is.

I think when you're doing something cutting edge like 'The Matrix,' it might mean when everybody's saying 'no' that you're really on the right track.

I don't like the term 'ensemble.' It's bland to me.

One of the things that's driving films in a particular direction is that the after market value of them is dropping really fast and in many segments of it, not just DVDs. Pay television is dropping.

What I keep searching for in movies, more and more, is the right gravity.

What I can't figure out is why we're not making more R-rated movies, actually.

My experience is that you can't possibly win against whatever the tidal wave is that's coming at you.

It's so hard to find a director who, when you look at their body of work, you like everything.

If the studio wants to spend money on making your movie better, let them.

I mean, I'm not a contrarian.

I wished for someone to hold me up. Suddenly someone was there.

This is what dating is like, I thought, this horrible mix of boredom and fear and humiliation and confusion.

Every weakness contains within itself a strength.

It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.

The true enjoyments must be spontaneous and compulsive and look to no remoter end.

Conventions are often more cruel than the law.

Learn how to cope, sweet friend. There will always be dark days ahead.

When we are abandoned to God, He works through us all the time.

We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation.

Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents.