It's easier to control people when they're afraid.

The closer you stay to emotional authenticity and people, character authenticity, the less you can go wrong. That's how I feel now, no matter what you're doing.

Anything you could ever want or be you already have and are.

The holy trifecta of directing and filmmaking is character emotion, camera movement and music. When you hit those three, that's magical. That's what I'm trying to do.

I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write.

There's nothing better than an actor who is really, really hungry to show everything they've got.

You know, veterans come home and they may not be bipolar, but after they've been through a war with PTSD or a head injury, their families have a handful when they come home.

That's just how I see things. I think things that are the most dramatic or tragic can also look the most ridiculous and funny. That's part of being human.

The idea that anyone would think their religious ideas make them morally superior is just preposterous.

The gift of life is the gift to suffer sometimes and to embrace it, heartbreak and all.

What do we have in life, really? If we're lucky we get to a certain age, and we have each other. We have the food we like. We have our crazy little rituals. And we have each other.

It is both humiliating and humbling to discover that a single generation after the events that constructed me as a public personality, I am remembered as a hairdo.

The great artist is conscious of the talent and power he possesses otherwise he would not see his faults and so would not be able to improve.

Rene, you want us to find you-don't-know-who and to retrieve his you-don't-know-what for you-won't-tell-me-whom?

The game of life is good, though all of life may be hurt, and though all lives lose the game in the end.

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

All any grownup expects of an adolescent is that he act like an adult and be satisfied to be treated like a child.

My entire high school career - my entire school career - I've been like three feet taller than everyone in my grade.

We are against the majority tyrannizing the minority. But we are definitely against the minority tyrannizing the majority.

I have never liked Morrissey, and I still don't. I think it's hilarious, actually, what things I've heard about him, what he's really like, and his public persona is so different. He's such an actor.

Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say.