I'm an American. We're a people diseased with progress.

Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement.

Life's generally artless ... but it does get these occasional hard-ons for plot. It connects things, nefariously, behind your back, and before you know it you're in the final act of a lousy movie.

Snow makes cities innocent again, reveals the frailty of the human gesture against the void.

That's what happens when you keep a secret from someone you love: you start to hate them for allowing you to prove your own willingness to deceive them.

Words betrayed her: beautiful butterflies in her mind; dead moths when she opened her mouth for their release into the world.

When you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness.

Coffee justifies the existence of the word 'aroma'.

There is no God and that's His only commandment.

With adolescent egotism and a lot of money one can pretty much rule the world.

You think God will never forgive you, but the only God is beauty and beauty always forgives. It forgives with its infinite indifference.

Never laugh at the fate of others, you are the next

You need to keep you mind at peace and be sure what you do is your passion.

Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand.

But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why some days it's so quiet you don't even know it's there.

Everyone has a chance to learn, improve, and build up their skills.

I'm such a wuss. But I know that The Exorcist [1973] is one of the best and most famous of [horor movies].

Where mistakes have been made, the responsibility rests with me.

It is easier going out of the way when we are in, than going in when we are out.

I believe love is what makes the world go round. No matter how old or young, love is why we are here. It is the very essence of one's being.

Cinema to me is like a religion. If I was going to have a religion it would be cinema.