I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.

I don't love you anymore. Goodbye.

Alice: It's the only way to leave. "I don't love you anymore. Goodbye." Dan: Supposing you do still love them? Alice: You don't leave.

Alice: I don’t love you anymore. Goodbye. Dan: Since when? Alice: Now. Just now.

I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.

Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.

A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.

I'm a Golden Globe nominee, yes. It's very nice. It's a very nice thing, but I kind of think of all the awards I wasn't ever nominated for, for years and things.

Well, you just know, as a writer, I didn't really write one of the five best screenplays of the year. There were lots of brilliant screenplays; I was just one of the lucky ones who got nominated.

When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.

When I look back I can't believe I was so stupid as to direct Dealer's Choice.

Happy ending aren't just for royalty. Happy ending are for all of us.

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.

If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.

I want the real deal whatever that means and whatever it takes to get there so I've been exploring.

But sometimes there’s nothing left to do but move on.

My goal in life is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared

What divides men is less a difference in ideas than a likeness in pretensions.

Hoods are good parts because they're always flashy and attract attention. If you've got any ability, you can use that as a stepping stone.

'Alms in secret extinguish the wrath of the Lord' means you are so immersed in sincerity and in preserving that sincerity that you have no pleasure in giving alms.

The happy person often walks, unshaken, along the path that a thousand unhappy people insist is wrong.