I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.

I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'

Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.

You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.

I smoke pot because I want to go to heaven before I die

Fashion wasn't what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going.

It’s not what you are that counts, it’s what they think you are.

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love

Employment is a major time killer

Happiness is not a condition but a mindset.

If blue collar jobs are leaving and white collar jobs are outsourced what color collar jobs are left?

There ain't never a horse that never been rode; there ain't never a rider that can't be thrown.

Literature is not only a mirror; it is a map, a geography of the mind.

It's only a wonderful world if you can make it that way. There are no street signs pointing to Paradise Road.

I'm not the kind of director who aims to send a message out.

Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.

Language is the spiritual exhalation of the nation.