I spent so many years trying to become an actor, trying to be a person that I wasn't.

In a cement park across the street is this giant sculpture. It is a giant umbrella frame lying on its side. It's green. Stand under it, during a rainstorm, you'll still get wet - that's why it's art.

People are usually pretty hungry after a funeral. I guess it's because we all realize that time is running out and we better eat all we can. Please don't mention that to my mother.

I feel like there's a certain kind of laughter missing in the world.

I don't want to write my life. I live my life. I want to make up a new world.

I want to write stories that don't help you escape life, but embrace life.

There is nothing more depressing than toast that no one eats.

People love conversation, and movies are conversations, and an audience has to participate; it has to fill in some blanks.

I want to make accessible movies for bright people, but I don't want to play games and be coy.

The bigger the budget, the less an audience is trusted, and that's the difference between a big-budget film and a small-budget film.

My job as a dramatist is to find out where these characters want to go, and make it as hard as possible for them to get there.

The public wants work which flatters its illusions.

Books, like friends, shoould be few and well-chosen.

You should not strive for your own personal wealth but for the prosperity of the Kingdom ofGod.

It is interesting indeed that some people think they are right to force others into believing what they believe.

Fragrance is the first layer of dressing, a woman's invisible body suit.

We in Europe have great capacities.

I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy.

There's been a 40-year effort on the far right to build up think tanks, academic programs, advocacy groups, to push a particular ideology. That's really where the impact is that people don't see.

Blaze Foley was a genius and a beautiful loser.

Our language, once homely and colloquial, seeks to aggrandize our meanest activities with polysyllabic terms or it retreats from frankness into a stammering verbosity.