I'm not really a full-time director, I just like to direct the things that I write because I think I'm going to know it better than someone else.

Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing.

I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing.

I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip.

Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy.

I believe in running through the rain and crashing into the person you love and having your lips bleed on each other.

I attribute all my success to ignorance. If you don't ever think about not getting where you want to be, I think it helps you out.

Marketing is the devil.

If you love somebody let them know every day.

Usually when you're playing a character, you think a lot about their backstory.

You want to know the hardest thing about being smart? What? I pretty much always know what's going to happen next; there's no suspense.

The smallest act of compassion can save a soul, perhaps your own.

A mans life is interesting primarily when he has failed. I well know. For its a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

That's how it started: a series of small hurts and excuses between two people that built up slowly, widening over time to form a vast and yawning divide.

I don't know what weapons will be used in the Third World War. But I can tell you what they'll use in the Fourth - rocks!

I try to emulate his approach of really get the most out of people by allowing them to experiment and certainly allowing people to make mistakes.

The only real cure for poverty is production.

Let's see if I get myself with this one.

Understand, it's never been easy to live, when we're trying to escape ourselves.

If we are free from attachment, we can easily recognize ourselves in other people, in different forms of manifestation, and then we don't have to suffer.

I have loved this life. I smile because I have tiny dreams that play hopscotch at the corners of my mouth. And every time I breathe they float, every time I laugh, they fly kites.