If you figure a way to live without serving a master, any master, then let the rest of us know, will you? For you'd be the first person in the history of the world.

My older sister was at the cusp of new wave, and I had older brothers from my father's first marriage who were rock 'n' roll guys, so I was exposed to a lot of popular culture.

Screenwriting is like ironing. You move forward a little bit and go back and smooth things out.

I'll rebel against powers and principalities, all the time. Always, I will.

Acting is the hardest job in the entire world. By far. Harder than ditch digging.

It's a gamble you take, the risk of alienating an audience. But there's a theory - sometimes it's better to confuse them for five minutes than let them get ahead of you for 10 seconds.

My dad was this sort of avant-garde guy who did all kinds of weird things. He was a true original and anybody who met him never forgot him.

I am always looking for that nuance, that moment of truth, and you can't really do that fast.

My writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people.

You write who you are. But you also cheat, and youwrite what you want to be. It's embarrasing to be the guy who madethe movie, knowing you're not exactly who you want to be.

Film school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it.

There would be no Christmas if there was no Easter.

When harried, we go as far as we dare, and with those we're sure of we dare go very far, knowing where forgiveness is certain.

Be picky about vibes. Be picky about the energy you surround yourself with. You owe yourself that much.

Only an individual can imagine, invent, or create. The whole audience of art is an audience of individuals.

Okay, I'm guessing you're gonna give us the bad news first because there's no good news?

I learned the power of storytelling and the responsibility that people with influence have to speak out

Generation on generation, your neck rubbed the windowsill of the stall, smoothing the wood as the sea smooths glass.

Democracy cannot be built on revenge and you will not have the support of the world if you are intolerant and take the law into your own hands.

As long as skies are blue, and fields are green Evening must usher night, night urge the morrow, Month follow month with woe, and year wake year to sorrow

Women are always beautiful.