I would never rest until I held vengeance and the throne within my hand, and good night sweet prince to anybody who stood between me and these things.

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.

Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.

Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.

The death of an illusion tends to disconcert.

When inspiration is silent reason tires quickly.

That's life: trust and you're betrayed; don't trust and you betray yourself.

There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.

If a building is falling on you, you don't concern yourself with the horn of an approaching car. You deal with the most immediate peril first. That's survival.

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.

Nothing we did in those days has caused a change." "Because of what we did, things remained as they were, rather than getting worse," I told him.

When a woman who has much to say says nothing, her silence can be deafening.

The man had a smart mouth, a hard body, and questionable motives. In short, he was exactly what made her panties melt.

People now a days are in business of minding other's business.

My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do.

Who you are as a character is kind of the foundation of everything.

Revenge is never a straight line.

Plato described ordinary life as unthinking, lived in a dim cave of shadowy reflections, but said that it is possible to leave the cave and see things in sunlit clarity as they actually are.

I used to have an afro like Will Ferrell in Semi-Pro. It was bleached blond from the sun. I was tall and awkward. I was not cool.

When people approach me about my films it is usually to tell me how much they hate them.

I do not think discursively. It is not so much that I arrive at truth as that I take my start from it.