I'll give you the same advice I give my children: Never take advice from anybody.

Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.

I never knew what I wanted, except that it was something I hadn't seen before.

[The Player is] not a truthful indictment of Hollywood. It's much uglier than I portrayed it, but nobody would've been interested if I'd shown just how sadistic, cruel and self-orientated it is.

Your own ego is the only trap that I think you can fall into.

I love fishing. You put that line in the water and you don't know what's on the other end. Your imagination is under there.

Chance is another name that we give to our mistakes. And all of the best things in my films are mistakes.

I don't think screenplay writing is the same as writing - I mean, I think it's blueprinting.

If you have a child who is seven feet tall, you don't cut off his head or his legs. You buy him a bigger bed and hope he plays basketball.

All of my films deal with the same thing: striving, socially and culturally, to stay alive.

What is an ending? There's no such thing. Death is the only ending.

She had the prettiest eyes & prettiest smile withWounds on her heart and bruises on her soul~

If people begin to use the full power of conscience in all the choices they make in their everyday life, from presidential elections to purchasing things in the grocery store, the world will change.

Silence has never brought us anything of worth.

In today's regulatory environment, it's virtually impossible to violate rules ... but it's impossible for a violation to go undetected, certainly not for a considerable period of time.

It's not about battling the original artists when I record these songs, it's about paying tribute to them.

So that makes him, like, your fang granddaddy.

I have no doubt we're going to find big stores of weapons of mass destruction.

There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell.

An instant can crush a brain and change the course of life, the course of history.

Our desires attract supporting reasons as a magnet the iron fillings.