I would do my damn best to be more happy than not.

Everyone plays a purpose, even fathers who lie to you or leave you behind. Time takes care of all that pain so if someone derails you, it'll be okay eventually.

People will kill you over time. And how they’ll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases like ‘be realistic’.

... there are many to whom money has no personal appeal, but who can be tempted by the power it confers.

Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.

With my own group I like to keep it loose. They have to counter rather than go with me. When they stop I like to be moving.

It's OK showing yourself some love.

So, regardless of what they do, we have to play like we’re capable of playing. That’s a greater challenge in itself, but that’s really what we’re after.

Movies in general are more generic. If something sells just make more. That's Hollywood.

If De Niro wants to spend the twilight of his career as the McDonald's of master thespians, we can't stop him.

I have to do everything tomorrow first.

A good writer is not someone who knows how to write- but how to rewrite