It wasn’t him speaking. It was panic, anger, fear, and confusion. But how could he show it on the outside? Men are supposed to be fearless.

When Jesus says you must leave your family to follow Him, he doesn't necessarily mean physically. He means leave your dependence on them, make an emotional break with them.

A fart is just your arse applauding.

Any gun in the hands of a bad man is a bad thing. Any gun in the hands of a decent person is no threat to anybody — except bad people.

I've seen a lot of women give up after they've had three or four bad gigs in a row. It's very difficult to learn not to take nasty heckles personally.

Ability without honor has no value.

It's nervous work. The state you need to write in is the state that others are paying large sums of money to get rid of.

A physicist friend of mine once said that in facing death, he drew some consolation from the reflection that he would never again have to look up the word "hermeneutics" in the dictionary.

I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.

When a director makes a mistake, people suffer. People suffer horribly sometimes.