I'm drawn to people that have tasks to do.

The beautiful moment sits very close to the horrific one.

The lies are in the dialogue, the truth is in the visuals.

Happiness is a strange word. So conclusive. Happiness is a thing that happens for a moment.

I'm 51. So I'm just saying, 30 years from now you're going to have a different outlook. That's what a midlife crisis is.

I don't dislike everything I do. Especially with a film, you don't have an easy relationship with it when it's done because it's been your life.

I like to have a project. I live to have something to waste my energy on, something to think about. To figure out like a puzzle.

Waking up and having a project to work on is one of life's great pleasures.

I don't have to be making something to feel like life has value.

I'm looking at the window and can't understand why there are six hundred thousand SUVs here in this little town. No one can even move. Why doesn't everyone just get out and walk?

I'm not miserable, but I can't not be angry.

When we release all the negativity in our lives and notice the beauty all around us, we'll see what truly matters in life.

I’ve always thought that Binding was a bit like a war − both sides think they’re right, and neither wants to back down…the only difference is that you’re sleeping with the enemy.”-Evan

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

No more excuses. I can't blame anything on my parents. I'm responsible for my mistakes and my choices.

I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven. No, I would say sorry, I mean I would much rather go to the other place.

To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exclude yourself from the true enjoyment of it.

Perilous to us all are the devices of an art deeper than we possess ourselves.

Whatever you have lived, you can write & by hard work & a genuine apprenticeship, you can learn to write well; but what you have not lived you cannot write, you can only pretend to write it.

Librarians are like crack dealers when it comes to hooking small children.

Rampant technolgy eliminates luxury, but not by declaring privilege a human right; rather, it does so by both raising the general standard of living and cutting off the possibility of fulfilment.