I don't want to show deleted scenes. I don't like an audience looking at what the movie might have been - if it's in the movie, it's in the movie.

I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling... to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift.

Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.

Stay true to your brand and true to your voice and audiences will respond to that authenticity with enthusiasm and passion.

People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reasons in the same box.

The only thing worse than a loser is someone who won't admit he played badly.

You have to always be ready, always be alive, and always be willing to move in a new direction.

I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman.

Mediocrity is the elephant in the room.

We're all victims of our own hubris at times.

I think you need the failures to get the success. You learn more from that.

It is not everyday that one learns an entire militia has sworn unbeknownest to obey you

It's quite possible to leave your home for a walk in the early morning air and return a different person- beguiled enchanted.

I believe nothing of my own that I have ever written.

What we call knowledge does not and cannot have the purpose of producing representations of an independent reality, but instead has an adaptive function.

Anything you can say, think, feel, trust or feel is untrue - is an illusion. The fact that there are these things is an illusion.

I was under the impression I had signed a three-year contract. I want to be back. I expect to be back. I will be back.

I was always the Southern gentleman.

You are stronger than me," Asa says. "And in bravery and strength, there is a kind of beauty.

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day.

I prefer film and that's what I think I'm gonna put my focus on.