In college, I stopped doing pre-med and went into theater, and then I moved to San Francisco and lived there for five years.

A lot of first-time filmmakers are almost apologizing for their movie by saying, Well, we only had 18 days to shoot, you know.

Daydreaming allows you to play out scenarios where you miraculously save the day. You play out scenarios in your head that are kind of crazy, and then you personally, heroically resolve them.

It's all just a bit of fun ...

The 'Twilight' movies are great in their own right, but they certainly don't have any sense of humor to them.

Drama is played at the pace of chess... or billiards... or poker. Engrossing? Sure. But comedy is played at the jubilant, high-octane speed of sports like basketball or hockey.

After 'Freaky Friday, ' another teen movie was not on my playlist.

The attendance of that brother was now become like the attendance of a demon on some devoted being that had sold himself to destruction

A simple pecking order has always characterized mankind's relationship to waste: The wealthy throw out what they do not want, the poor scavenge what they can, and whatever remains is left to rot.

Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.

When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.

Who wants to be a millionaire? And go to ev'ry swell affair?

A week ago it was the mountains I thought the most wonderful, and today it's the plains. I guess it's the feeling of bigness in both that carries me away.

You cannot conceive how I ache to be with you: how I would die for one hour.

Wars are fought for the benefit of oligarchs, triumphs bought with the blood of peons.

Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another.

Fire is the reuniting of matter with oxygen. If one bears that in mind, every blaze may be seen as a reunion, an occasion of chemical joy.