Freedom is a muscle...you have to exercise it.

The important thing is to do good work, no matter what medium you do it in.

To be on the wire is life. The rest is waiting.

You read a lot about movies with budgets of $25 to 30 million. Hell, if a studio can piss away that kind of money, why not let 'em piss on me?

For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize.

You kind of invite a little spooky, creepy vibe into your whole experience of making a movie.

We are all much more simply human than otherwise, be we happy and successful, contented and detached, miserable and mentally disordered, or whatever.

Nobody cares that you're smart and nobody cares that your kids don't have bruises.

There is no person, no theorist so reckless as he who says that the facts speak for themselves.

I don't really put my name to anything that I don't love and believe in, because there's no point.

We all die, just a question of when.

When is man strong until he feels alone?

It's better to be in charge of change than to have to react to change.

In a mathematical proposition, for example, the objectivity is given, but therefore its truth is also an indifferent truth.