I think about the sincerity of my writing. I try to be true, to pose questions. Shake people up a bit and make them look in a direction they wouldn't normally.

An artist is someone who feels the vibrations of the world and tries to transcribe them through his medium.

I like speed in thrillers. It's a rhythm adapted to the subject.

It's the comedies and thrillers that are successful. People love horror, but in thrillers. Once you speak of pain and suffering it's a different matter.

Most of all people respond to a film tackling grave subjects that question and go against the prevailing mood.

They shall arrive in a murmurAnd shall disappear into fog and earth

In writing, you must kill all your darlings.

It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.

I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento I will pump up Sacramento.

He could beat anything, he thought, because no thing could hurt him if he did not care.

If we define a misanthrope as 'someone who does not suffer fools and likes to see fools suffer,' we have described a person with something to look forward to.

I'm not saying I'm something special. I might play a little better tennis than other people, but it is because I was given the chance, and not many people are.

Never judge a philosophy by its abuse.

I am the president now, the president of everybody.

Being in Hollywood and having a love for Christ, is hard.