I did make some money, the first money that I ever made, doing this last one, and it's an extraordinary feeling just being given the freedom to do something.

Whether it's Dorothy Parker or Oscar Wilde, they're brilliant with genius bon mots. Of course, I find them extraordinary.

I was very inspired by Peter Mullan's film about those kinds of places where you put people who'd been bad.

I know I'm part of the changing process of the way we look at things.

Writers and filmmakers have this age-old relationship to the material.

When somebody say no, it's a red flag to a bull to me.

As I found out making this last movie ["Method"], if you ever do things in an unusual, different way, you got to fight because there's no way people will let you.

Life is transient and ephemeral so dance in your own way.

Life is loves shrinewhen you're my valentine.

You reach a point where the pain gets so acute you do not feel it anymore, but to reach that point, you experience so much pain that you're unable to forget the suffering that led you there.

Not to understand something is better than misunderstanding it.

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.

My ideas are not developed before I actually do the pieces.

Potential just means you ain't done it yet.

God is not a diversion.

People call me wild. Not really though, I'm not.I guess I've never been normal, not what you call Establishment. I'm country.

Every human being is a Muslim by nature, not by religious practice. By nature!