I didn't have any desire I might have had 10 years ago to shoot every single word that I wrote.

My older sister was at the cusp of new wave, and I had older brothers from my father's first marriage who were rock 'n' roll guys, so I was exposed to a lot of popular culture.

Screenwriting is like ironing. You move forward a little bit and go back and smooth things out.

I'll rebel against powers and principalities, all the time. Always, I will.

Acting is the hardest job in the entire world. By far. Harder than ditch digging.

It's a gamble you take, the risk of alienating an audience. But there's a theory - sometimes it's better to confuse them for five minutes than let them get ahead of you for 10 seconds.

My dad was this sort of avant-garde guy who did all kinds of weird things. He was a true original and anybody who met him never forgot him.

I am always looking for that nuance, that moment of truth, and you can't really do that fast.

My writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people.

You write who you are. But you also cheat, and youwrite what you want to be. It's embarrasing to be the guy who madethe movie, knowing you're not exactly who you want to be.

Film school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it.

I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don't believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.

One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.

One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.

Memory is what makes us young or old.

You didn't grow up driving...you figured it out.

Christ did not come to straighten out the natural, but to "CROSS" it out.

It's really about living in your head... just looking out at the world, then going back into your head and tossing around a lot of ideas and coming out with something interesting to say.

I never read theory. I think that was to my benefit.

Dear young people, Jesus gives us life, life in abundance. If we are close to him we will have joy in our hearts and a smile on our face.

Aggression is what I do. I go to war. You don't contest football matches in a reasonable state of mind.