I always say writing is like dreaming, shooting is like living, and editing is like murder, because you take all these gifts that actors give you, and you cut them.

You can never maintain just pure happiness. In my life, I want full emotion. I want equal parts happiness and sadness.

There's something so glorious in giving control to the world. I think that's what I'm trying to do in my films-control the world but also let it be chaotic, let there be life.

It happens sometimes that when someone has a camera, they change; sometimes they change for the better.

When I made my student film, a feature, nobody wanted to talk to me and I was, like, in the desert for 12 years.

I tell the actors that the biggest gift they can give me is to fail. And that the second gift they can give me is to surprise me.

A lawyer actually has to see all sides of a situation. Lawyers actually might be the most understanding human beings.

There's one rule that I have on my movies, which is that anything that you want to do, you can do. But! There's a flip side to that, which is that anything I want you to do, give it a try also.

The heart may freeze, or it can burn. The pain will ease and I can learn. There is no future, there is no past. I live this moment as, my last.

Voluntary personal savings accounts would enable future retirees to harness the power of the marketplace when saving for their retirements.

I am a competitor and always have that itch until the day I die, but I won't let the itch supersede being a businessman.

In America they like my spicy TV alter ego, probably because there were a lot of Italians and Hispanics in the country, but the real L.A. life is a hard-working one.

The thought of flight has melted me, I am less solid than liquid, then I'm going up and going invisible like steam.

I am everyone I have ever loved.

The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing

I see the new Latin artist as a pioneer, opening up doors for others to follow. And when they don't open, we crowbar our way in.

The pilot system in television is utterly broken. It's a huge waste of money.

We are born to die tomorrow, and yet through books we are able to know events of thousands of years.