I love the act of writing. I like the quiet, internal aspect of it. If I lost track of that, I couldn't direct the same way. I couldn't be a director for-hire; it's just not my nature.

One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.

Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major.

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.

Hell is the impossibility of reason.

If you make the movie from your heart and it stands over time, that's what matters to me.

I'm a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.

Every day that you get up, it's some kind of victory if you're making a good product, or working on a project that can only help mankind.

I think our life is a series of adventures.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.

The book was blunt and had an honesty about it, whereas the movie was just a beautiful lie.

I have clung To nothing, lov’d a nothing, nothing seen Or felt but a great dream!

It is the job of the market to turn the base material of our emotions into gold.

My songs are just little letters to me.

Truth lives in the cellar, error on the doorstep.

No problem is so intractable that something interesting cannot be said about it.

If you try to be funny, you're not being funny.

I'm thankful For the blessing And the lessons that I've learned with you By my side

The subconscious is ahead of the conscious, and we never know what really drives us.

You are my lover, you're my best friend. You're in my soul.