I love making movies, I love the differentness of it, I love writing. But I've always liked television. I grew up on television.

I'm a firm believer that character is highly overrated. Character is a trick that we do with the audience's collusion.

I was a dog in a past life. Really. I'll be walking down the street and dogs will do a sort of double take. Like, Hey, I know him.

That red carpet has to be felt to be believed.

Oh yeah, that's the Holy Grail, Pirates of the Caribbean. Johnny Depp, he's the real deal, isn't he? He doesn't get the girl, and he doesn't care.

Shameless is a rough show, and it’s not for everyone, but it’s also beautiful.

It's hard to be depressed around a ukulele. You just pick it up and you're halfway home.

I'll tell you this about the Oscars - they're real.

There are some older women out there who are just knockouts, real beauties, and they're not getting the roles they should.

Everyone hooks up with George Clooney. He's a genuinely cool guy. He's using his powers for good.

You should know the lines, be prepared, get sleep, and have the script analyzed so you're ready to rock and roll.

You're going to turn it into a fascist corporate theme park where the few people who can still afford the price of admission no longer have an ounce of freedom.

I like the confusion you get between science and religion … that’s where belief lies and art as well.

Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.

Giving him our plans is giving him ourselves.

Each one of us is a creator. And together, we are The Creator.

It is not those who can inflict the most but those who can endure the most who will conquer.

When you get a poem [in a public place], it happens to you so suddenly that you don't have time to deploy your anti-poetry deflector shields that were installed in high school.

May good fortune be your constant companion.

Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it's richest, form is at its fullest.

As Camille Paglia's success has demonstrated, what is most marketable is absolutism and attitude undiluted by thought.