I wanted to be an actor. I decided when I was very young, when I first saw movies, that I wanted to be an actor.

The man is clear in his mind, but his soul is mad.

It takes more than going down to the video store and renting "Easy Rider" to be a rebel.

I was very shy, and it was a lot easier for me to communicate if I had a camera between me and other people.

Like all artists, I want to cheat death a little and contribute something to the next generation.

People keep asking me, 'What evil lurks in you to play such bad characters?' There is no evil in me, I just wear tight underwear.

Just because it happened to you, doesn't mean it's interesting.

Art is a bad word in Hollywood. You use art too many times and they show you the elevator and then your name is taken off the parking lot.

My whole written history is one big lie! I mean, I can't even believe my history.

In a world where the dead have returned to life, the word" trouble' loses much of its meaning.

Work is fun to me. All those years of being an actor and a director and not being able to get a job - two weeks is too long to not know what my next job will be.

Victory is always bittersweet.

Sweet April showers Do bring May flowers.

The trouble is, walking in Venice becomes compulsive once you start. Just over the next bridge, you say, and then the next one beckons.

Some is, I think, the personal in any act of writing. You find yourself caught up: you start a sentence, and it becomes revelatory, not just of the character, but of you as well.

Women do not forget. Women do not forgive.

You can't just change who you are on the outside and expect it to change who you are on the inside.

If you can't go through it, find a way around it. Don't spend all your time banging your head against it.

The road before us is shorter than the road behind.

I was starstruck and sweat a lot when I met Oprah Winfrey and tried to hug her. Because when you think you know people when you see them from your couch.

We've had public companies in the past in that business and they bleed. We've got a lot more blood than they do.