I love food shows: Anthony Bourdain, Iron Chef, Chopped, you name it.

In my freshman year in high school, I went to the only public high school in Boston with a theatre program.

I didn't have big movie offers, or any big agents wanting to work with me. I had to go grassroots, start at the bottom and go on 150 auditions before someone finally gave me a shot

The food in Europe is pretty disappointing. I like fried chicken. But other than that Europe is great.

Ultimately in the end, it's the director's choice

We're entertainers, while people want us to be gods.

I wish I was a guy who could have pancakes and bacon and cheesy eggs, but I'd curl up and pass out. I gotta start healthy or I'll be off the rails all day.

What's important is self-appreciation

I love the rush of being creative. I really think I live for it.

For young filmmakers, Saw is a perfect film. It doesn't cost the GNP of almost every country of the world.

I try to ground most of my characters in reality somehow. That's kind of what I bring to the table.

She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all.

Candor is the brightest gem of criticism.

Let nature take its course and your tools will strike at the right moment.

With most of my books, there are some parts that pop up right away, and other parts I have to wait for.

I'm not sure how paying for transgender surgery [in the military] makes our country safer.

We ought to live sacrificing, and singing, and dancing.

Whenever people tell me they don't know how to get inspired, I say "What's the matter with you?! I could stay in my apartment and be inspired!"

Man can have only a certain number of teeth, hair and ideas; there comes a time when he necessarily loses his teeth, hair and ideas.

When I was a boy I first learned how much better water tastes when it has set a while in a cedar bucket. Warmish-cool, with a faint taste like the hot July wind in Cedar trees smells.

Anytime you can already have somebody in a pinning position where they can't kick out, what better than that for a brilliant man.