It's all just one film to me. Just different chapters.

Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.

I never knew what I wanted, except that it was something I hadn't seen before.

[The Player is] not a truthful indictment of Hollywood. It's much uglier than I portrayed it, but nobody would've been interested if I'd shown just how sadistic, cruel and self-orientated it is.

Your own ego is the only trap that I think you can fall into.

I love fishing. You put that line in the water and you don't know what's on the other end. Your imagination is under there.

Chance is another name that we give to our mistakes. And all of the best things in my films are mistakes.

I don't think screenplay writing is the same as writing - I mean, I think it's blueprinting.

If you have a child who is seven feet tall, you don't cut off his head or his legs. You buy him a bigger bed and hope he plays basketball.

All of my films deal with the same thing: striving, socially and culturally, to stay alive.

What is an ending? There's no such thing. Death is the only ending.

How many people you bless is how you measure success

There's always that one guy who gets a hold on you.

God bless America. Let's try to save some of it.

The dog that I was given on The Hills for Christmas is with my best friend's family.

...balance the budget ? Tax religion.

We determine our Destination by our priorities.

I would rather spend my entire life doing nothing than have my name attached to something mediocre.

Allow me, whom Fortune always desires to bury, lay down my life in these final trivialities. Many have freely died in longlasting loves, among whose number may the earth cover me as well.

It is to be doubted whether he will ever find the way to heaven who desires to go thither alone.