I decided to be what crime made of me.

The pimp has a grin, never a smile.

Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.

There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter.

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

It's the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.

My heart's in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand's in the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught.

Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist.

Solitude, as I understand it, does not signify an unhappy state, but rather secret royalty, profound incommunicability yet a more or less obscure knowledge of an invulnerable singularity.

The time for reasoning is past; now's the time to get steamed up and fight like mad.

There's no such thing as the middle of nowhere. Something is happening everywhere. You just have to find the story in it.

It's extraordinary that revolutions taking place around the world were sparked by communication on the Internet.

I like my subjects to be American, and not too dead, so I can interview people who knew them.

I pride myself on doing character-driven movies and, when my movies have worked, it's been because of the right casting and the right character, and it just clicks.

As long as you have the memories, you can be with that person forever.

The cloud of mind is discharging its collected lightning.

Often, in the real world, it's not the smart that get ahead but the bold.

Good sides to adversity are best admired at a distance.

I wonder why no one called the police about the rocket launcher? God knows my neighbors usually report it if I so much as fart in my backyard. (Bubba)

I would think anyone who does anything is always concerned about their customers.