If the film is nominated for awards, and even if it wins them, it doesn't make the movie any better, just as if it's ignored that doesn't make the movie any worse.

And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my fingers upon thee!

When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'

My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.

Just because I was at an anti-police brutality protest, doesn't mean I'm anti-police. We want justice, but stop shooting unarmed people.

If you want to make a movie, make it. Don't wait for a grant, don't wait for the perfect circumstances, just make it.

Don't write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what's in your heart.

In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.

Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.

If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.

Hamburgers! The corner-stone of any nutritious breakfast.

The way of the world isn't the strong devouring the weak, but the weak deceiving and poisoning and whispering in the ears of the strong until they become weak, too.

We are our stories.

It's only after you've lost everything that we're free to do anything.--Chuck Palahniuk

You have to take everything as it comes.

I know it may seem surprising to people, but learning dialog that has a conversational flow to it is not that difficult.

You can't get better at things you never play.

Realism...has no more to do with reality than anything else.

There's nothing harder to stop than somebody who wants to believe a miracle.

...I knew he would be dead, because Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted.

Since he saved me from the attack, I have associated his smell with safety, so as long as I focus on it, I feel safe now.