I'm not looking for artistic license with the script. I tend to arrive at a form with the script and feel that that should be for the time being what we aim for.

The screenplay is a great document because it makes you have many discussions prior to actually being on the floor.

I went through a pretty serious illness early in my life and I made a movie about that.

I'm very eclectic in terms of what I like, what I read, what I watch, my own consumer behavior.

I think it's never mono-causal why you fall in love with something that you want to do.

The movie doesn't do what you want it do. It just grows and then you have a movie at the end of it, hopefully.

It’s hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away a part of yourself.

A street full of electric light is a sign of civic failure and is an insulting injury to the soul. Shutting out the night is as disastrous as shutting out the light.

I'm one of those people who really wants to do everything. And if I had enough time, I really would.

This self-congratulatory notion Americans have that their country is Number One is borne of ignorance and bad manners.

As Dr. Chiang puts it, “while Buddha came to China on white elephants, Christ was borne on cannon balls.

[Not achieving a nuclear test ban] would have to be classed as the greatest disappointment of any administration of any decade, of any time and of any party.

Happy are those who have overcome their egos; happy are those who have attained peace; happy are those who have found the Truth.

A Christian should resemble a fruit tree with real fruit, not a Christmas tree with decorations tied on

The first time I smoked was at home with my mother and stepfather; they were like, If you are going to do this, we'd rather you did this with us.

Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?