In terms of the way the industry operates, the studio system was such its own thing. It's so different now that it's a globalized world.

Within a scantily plotted, novella-style narrative (the movie is an adaptation of a short story by Tom Bissell), single shots become story events that mere mention would spoil.

If you look at pictures of David O. Selznick , he wasn't even attractive. There's no way to portray him in a way that is glamorous, but that's one of the things that's fascinating to me about him.

As a performer, I could be like, "I don't want to leave that in there." But as a producer, I have to leave it in there.

I really feel like I could do anything if given enough time.

I just think the David O. Selznick story is one of the great, epic stories of Hollywood history that nobody knows. Maybe one of the reasons why nobody knows it is because he wasn't a movie star.

Hollywood is really weird to talk about in this monolithic sense because it's this microcosm of anywhere. It's full of a lot of people who have different intentions and different points of view.

I was trying to see if I could produce an episode - completely write it and research it and record it and edit it - all by myself in a week.

The thing that breaks my heart about [Dennis Wilson] is that he was very naïve from the beginning to the end.

The future depends on what choices we make....

As with the future, it is not all at once but grain by grain that one savours the past.

Confidence sometimes requires purposeful preparation and practice.

I've had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore.

I was very, very lucky because I started swimming when most of the landmarks in the world had not been swum.

Choose your companions before you choose your road.

God does not treat us as our sins deserve, man treats us as our sins deserve.

Only a good-for-nothing is not interested in his past.

It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated.