It doesn't feel like you're preaching, if you can say something in a joke.

If you've got time to waste, you might as well waste it listening to people.

Though it may not seem like it, I never try to write about a place, per se; it's always, first and last, about story. Story is everything. Story and a bit of attitude.

When you've got good actors, they're going to come up with good stuff, but you're never quite sure how the dynamics are going to work between them.

It isn't about being or not being dead, it's about what you leave behind

I hope there's some kind of morality in all my work.

It's the periods and the commas that you have to forget about. The words never change, but the intonations change.

'Pulp Fiction' is an amazing film, and I haven't made one nearly as good.

I realize that I am never going to grow up.

I won't work on anyone's else's script. I won't write for anyone else. I write my own stuff and make that when the time is right.

When I'm happiest writing is just not knowing where it goes and just let the characters bring you there.

It doesn't matter if justice is on your side. You have to depict your position as just.

There are conspiracies all over the Senate floor on any day!

There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.

Pain now is better than pain deferred.

But parents and schools have their priorities; making sure our kids eat right because research shows a clear connection between nutrition and student performance in school.

I've been singing since I was nine or ten.

All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up--that growing is an ever ongoing process.

Be able to keep a secret or promise when you know in your heart that it is the right thing to do.

I work a lot with a green screen, which is really time consuming. All the special effects are.

There are, indeed, few kinds of composition from which an author, however learned or ingenious, can hope a long continuance of fame.