I want to investigate what scares me and worries me.

I have gone insane. I won't be talking with you for a while.

Try to be as good a listener as you are a speaker. Don't just put the emphasis on saying things. Listen.

The first time I saw 'Sunset Boulevard' I was probably eight or nine years old, and it really struck me how it's so simply put and elegant, yet there's so much going on.

I really believe that if you're going to bring a child into the world, it's your job to parent that world. Especially if it's just you; you don't pawn her off on somebody.

I may not be wealthy; I'm living from pay check to pay check, but I get to make movies, which is what I love to do.

When you love something, it never goes away.

For me, I was given a great gift by my father and my mother in that I was never told any idea was bad. I was told I could explore any thought as long as I wasn't hurting someone else.

Some people are just not going to like me and they're not going to like my work. But that doesn't mean I'm a bad person.

My father is so jolly, and I live a really happy life. I think that's why all my interest in the darker things in films comes up: because I'm curious about things I don't live in.

Pressure is an emotional paralysis. It's hard enough to do the dishes when you're feeling pressured, let alone make a movie.

For the human experience, life in the natural world seems to require the application of meaning, in order to evoke purpose.

Start shaping your own day. Start walking your own walk. This journey is yours, take charge of it. Stop giving other people the power to shape your life.

You're right. What Drew and I had was genuine. He loved me. That doesn't mean he didn't change his mind.

The whole world is like Whitewall's razors I burst out. It cuts us, and we bleed but there's no purpose to it.

I don't think Aaron Sorkin can write a character who isn't really funny.

All philosophers should end their days at Pythia's feet. There is only one philosophy, that of unique moments.

Disco boy, no one understands, but thank the lord you still got hands.

My Bubbie lived to 104, which is probably a little too old to consider a ripe old age, because she had already started to turn. I still say she died young.

I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid.

Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.