If you try to write something that's memorable, you'll never get it. Sometimes it's the way the actor says the words that make it memorable.

In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.

Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.

Be positive, be positive. It's rough out there, but don't succumb. Don't succumb to the cynicism in the world.

I have heard your words and your disappointment, and I offer you a heart-felt apology to all who felt this was an odd or misguided casting choice.

The future isn't just something that happens. It's a brutal force, with a great sense of humor, that'll steamroll you if you're not watching.

I write with music. I write scenes in movies that hopefully can earn the use of some songs that are powerful to me.

Take it from your own life, write what you believe in.

Optimism is a revolutionary act

People dance and we have a lot of music and... this might be the closet I get for a while.

The power of music is still with me, every day. It's one of the most inspiring things available in the world.

Stop being self-conscious when you write.You are the expert about the world you are creating, no one else. So be bold and write on.

I have been and always shall be your friend.

the ragged skyline of the city resembled the disturbed encephalograph of an unresolved mental crisis.

Ladies, if you're at the mall and you think your man is looking at other girls just remember: If your man is at the mall with you... he... loves you.

In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.

All the lyrical rappers I know is broke.

This error of free will is a special doctrine of the Antichrist.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

If you didn't believe in objective truth, arguments would be just toys, or games, or jokes.

When youre a kid, youre only exposed to whats going on in your mind. The mind is like a bigger-than-outer-space type of thing.