I always thought I was going to be the film guy until I died.

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.

Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains.

I've found that my athletes run their best races after about 10 weeks of intense training.

It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

I don't want to just go to the playoffs, I don't want to go to the playoffs and win the first round, second round, and not win the whole thing because it's bittersweet.

I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.

When I was at college - that was the first time I tried singing. I played in a band, and people seemed to like it.

David Mamet was great to work with. He was everything that I thought he would be as a director. He's incredibly articulate, an easy collaborator. Extraordinarily knowledgeable about film and writing.

One ought to be afraid of nothing other then things possessed of power to do us harm, but things innoucuous need not be feared.

I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well.

There's a good old boys' network out there that's hard to penetrate and it's not always in the best interest of the party or for conservative principles.