I think people are always looking for a good comedy.

I'm not a public figure at all. I don't really go out a lot to places where there are people like those who sit at the bottom of your driveway.

The more people involved in making a movie, the worse it is, generally.

I don't think I'm very ambitious at all. But I seem to play people who have that quality.

If you give a character room to breathe, they come alive.

If you work in casting, it's sort of not cool to want to act. A lot of people think that casting directors are frustrated actors, but it wasn't true with any of the casting people I knew.

I'm unqualified for anything else. I'm barely qualified for this.

I've worked with a lot of great directors.

I... had guys on the set who didn't like me... they weren't interested in the cold character.

The movies I'm in not a lot of people see, but it's alright.

I have a hard time visualizing anything, which is why I'm not a director, and which is why I try to work with ones I know have a strong idea in mind.

In utter humility, bow to What Is. And in time, crying one's guts out, howling, bowing to IT, "knowing" comes. As a gift of the Divine.

But I do, and the barbed wire tightens once more, until my heart is strangled and broken.

I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist, but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.

But hush! No telling to others that make so inquisitive questions. We must obey, and silence is a part of obedience, and obedience is to bring you strong and well into loving arms that wait for you.

I think the point of cinematography, of what we do, is intimacy.

We will also make it a priority to develop defensive and offensive cyber capabilities at our U.S. Cyber Command and recruit the best and brightest Americans.

Readers and writers are united in their need for solitude, in their pursuit of substance in a time of ever-increasing evanescence: in their reach inward, via print, for a way out of loneliness.

All generalisations - perhaps except this one - are false.

At least I can write.

Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food - the way to get life out of it