For some reason, television still bores me. Even the best shows.

One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.

Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major.

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.

Hell is the impossibility of reason.

If you make the movie from your heart and it stands over time, that's what matters to me.

I'm a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.

Every day that you get up, it's some kind of victory if you're making a good product, or working on a project that can only help mankind.

I think our life is a series of adventures.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.

Make peace with yourself before you move forward. Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward.

I want my own bed, in my own apartment. Home sweet home. No place like home. Take me home, country roads. Home is where the heart is. But my heart is here. So I must be home.

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Compassion is not having any hesitation to reflect your light on things

The understanding also hath its idiosyncrasies as well as other faculties.

I mean, Emily Harris was his wife.And she seemed to resent his leadership, but on the other hand, she felt like a good soldier, that he had to be the leader.

Mostly you write to find out what you have to say.

Sometimes I panic and think I can't really write.

There's a lot of us idiot actors that get tattoos and they cover them with makeup when you do a film.

I think he lives in such a rarified bubble these days, he doesn't understand what reality is any more.