I think the main thing about comedy and humor is that it's impossible and always was impossible to define.

There’s nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you’re meant to do. It’s like falling in love.

I love to take actors to a place where they open a vein. That’s the job. The key is that I make it safe for them to open the vein.

Any good movie is filled with secrets.

There's nothing in the American dream about character. It's a serious flaw.

A movie is like a person. Either you trust it or you don't.

The unconscious is our best collaborator.

Being with an insanely jealous person is like being in the room with a dead mammoth.

I was just trying to make a nice little movie... It wasn't until I saw it all put together that I realized this was something remarkable.

I love the editing process of making movies. I just wish that life had one.

I have never understood people dividing things into dramas and comedies.

Write for a cause, NOT APPLAUSEWrite to express, NOT TO IMPRESS.Writing isn’t just about being noticed…IT'S BEING REMEMBERED.

I'm an abstract painter not just for myself, but because I really believe in abstraction.

Better stupid and safe that smart and dead.

The human spirit was the strongest medicine on earth. And sometimes all it needed was a little encouragement to pull off a miracle.

I try to recognize that there is no such thing as having it all - and it's impossible to be perfect. You just have to let certain things go.

A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.

With age, the mind grows slower and more wily.

Suffering is a call to conversion: it reminds us of our frailty and vulnerability.

People think I'm crazy, but I'm in demand.

Likeminded folks shop in the same circles.