In a world of travail and cheap wine the ridiculous becomes sublime

To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon.

He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings.

I'm not a big fan of identity politics and sort of picking one thing and defining yourself with it.

I try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of timing and pacing.

I consider myself one of the luckiest people in the history of show business.

If you just work on stuff that you like and you're passionate about, you don't have to have a master plan with how things will play out.

I don't read reviews, There's no value for me in reading them. Whether they're good or bad, they'll just make me self-conscious.

Ray Jennings was to orthodoxy what King Herod was to child-minding.

The current global landscape is quite different from the not-too-distant past. The process of globalization has intensified, and the world is moving towards new forms of governance.

One common mistake is to think that one reality is the reality. You must always be prepared to leave one reality for a greater one.