Filmmakers have to find the right materials to match their [voice].

Giving should be a part of your routine, just like working out, eating, and sleeping.

You don't get to celebrate yourself unless you risk being mocked or rejected. As an artist, you cannot play it safe. You just can't.

Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.

My biggest fear in life is to be average.

Is it possible that there are no coincidences?

When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.

I find it very eerie when somebody is being really polite.

There are scenes that were right on the edge, but I always try to err on non-indulgence. It's something that I'm very careful about, that I'm just leaning too hard into something.

Sometimes we do not do things that we wish to do, so others will not know that we wish to do them.

When you find your voice, your life takes on grace.

He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.

You know, it would be much less trouble if you were willing to bat your magic eyelashes.

The Bane...where coxswain's dirtand seaman's shirtsbrushed bawdily upon her chest...

I think that I was lucky to have that period of time [ like coming to New York] because everything was so exciting and new.

It’s like someone who prays every night saying God’s a good listener. Just because you’re talking to us doesn’t mean we’re listening. With me and God, you never really know.

The principal effect of the passions is that they incite and persuade the mind to will the events for which they prepared the body.

We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There's not much personal about the laws of physics.

Your hands may be full of money and your brain full of information but if your heart is empty, your life is very empty.

I think I did not like him [Corey Feldman] in Goonies. He's kind of a similar character in Stand By Me isn't he? Well I liked him in Stand By Me.

Tricking someone into grief is one of the cruelest tricks a person can play, and its been played on me twice.