I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that I could just pop in and my computer would never crash

Saigon is hot, full of atmosphere, activity, and commerce.

Elizabeth Hurley and I had a lot of fun together. She's a very beautiful, confident woman.

As a young man I prayed for success. Now I just pray to be worthy of it.

I don't believe that wishing works. I think we get the things we work for.

I guess darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos. I believe in that. I think that's the basis of Greek mythology.

Most people go, I wish for world peace. But chaos has a place in balancing out the light and the dark in the world. I don't know if I would wish for world peace.

Maybe my caveman ancestors invented the wheel or something. I'm not sure.

Careers go in cycles. I've plateau-ed. I've been at the bottom of the ocean... You win some, you lose some.

To swing or not to swing? Swing.

In L.A., nobody touches you. We're always behind this metal and glass.

Failure is a teacher. It teaches what you ought to learn.

...with white dawns and glaring moons, and sunsets smeared with too much color.

'Ida' is about humanity, about guilt and forgiveness. It's not a film that deals with an issue as such. It's more universal.

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

There were a lot of beautiful, thin people out there driving nice cars. It was a whole different experience being in L.A.

Character is, for the most part, simply habit become fixed.

For better or worse, intelligence can come to nothing when emotions hold sway.

The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction, different approach to story.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

I choose to think of tv audience as nameless, formless, faceless people who are all like me. And anything that I write, if I like it, they'll like it.