I've always equated the writing process with editing, sort of like when I get through editing the movie, that's like my last draft of the screenplay.

And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my fingers upon thee!

When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'

My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.

Just because I was at an anti-police brutality protest, doesn't mean I'm anti-police. We want justice, but stop shooting unarmed people.

If you want to make a movie, make it. Don't wait for a grant, don't wait for the perfect circumstances, just make it.

Don't write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what's in your heart.

In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.

Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.

If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.

Hamburgers! The corner-stone of any nutritious breakfast.

When we begin to see our differences as opportunities rather than threats, then we can work together.

I’m not interested in meeting management today… I’m more interested in finding out how a person has behaved in the past.

I was fairly poor but most of my money went for wine and classical music. I loved to mix the two together.

If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us.

You're trying to make someone wet their pants and you're trying to make somebody crap in their pants. That's the motivation of a comic. Who else has that power?

Do what you will, only do something.

Climbing is one of the few sports in which the arena (the cliffs, the mountains and their specific routes) acquire a notoriety that outpopulates, outshines and outlives the actual athletes.

I focus on details, either of the body, or of objects that represent gender, sexuality, and other themes.

Mine alone is the country of my soul.

There's a lot more to be learned, and I'm going to learn all the way up to the stairway to the stars