I think drug movies free the director to make intense films

As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.

I really believe that you never stop learning.

I'm not a proponent of people watching a movie, and then going out and doing something bad. People have been doing bad things, well before movies.

I just - you know, some people just have some very full laughter - full of joy - and have no shame or fear of letting that out.

I didn't like some of the movies that were coming into me

I was on a soap opera before that for three years, where I was the nicest guy on earth.

You're always - you're constantly learning things if you're the type of person who stays open and current.

Suddenly playing the charming bad guy was my thing.

I know when I go to a movie I want to experience something, whether to laugh, to cry, to feel bad.

So, you need to balance it out with bigger and smaller movies.

Harsh, bitter laughs exploded from her like shrapnel, and she didn’t care who was cut in the process.

My older brother Joel became an art teacher my brother Rip ultimately became a television producer and singer and actor himself.

Walk like a champion! Talk like a champion!

When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.

Men have to be reminded that women exist.

My neighborhood is fairly white, yet the local middle school is all black. It is bad. It is very bad.

Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.

A minute goes by so fearfully quick. You might as well try to stop a Bandersnatch!

I have an idea for sweatshops: air conditioning! That's simple. 14 year old boys working twelve hour days? "Yeah, but they're comfortable!"

Listing your personal milestones is like storing a pocketful of sunshine for a rainy day. Sometimes our best is simply not enough.... We have to do what is required.