Learning how to die is therefore learning how to live.

I know I wasn't as handsome as some other guys, but I was OK with that.

All over the world, young men and young women will always dream dreams.

The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.

The ambition, the drive, the wanting to be the center of attention, the wanting to succeed... They're all inside me somewhere.

I didn't go out looking for negative characters; I went out looking for people who have a struggle and a fight to tackle. That's what interests me.

Don't let people treat you like a cigarette, they only use you when they're bored and step on you when they're done. Be like drugs, let them die for you.

I work constantly but I work at a lot of different things. You know, I run a theater company in New York, I direct plays, act in plays, in movies, so I try to keep it eclectic.

No one wants to be pretentious about what they do or take it seriously, because that is just weird.

I think you should be serious about what you do because this is it. This is the only life you've got.

To be loved, I think, is the thing that gets you up in the morning.

IF you can fly above the CLOUD of politics, the storm is not for you.

Hecuba had the mistaken notion, just like my poor mama, that all a girl had to do was to get married and all her problems were solved overnight.

No person wakes up and finds themselves on the world stage. When that happens, it is in the movies.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

Half of your power lies in your sameness with others. The other half lies in your uniqueness.

Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative

Corporate greed is killing America, and that's what we battling at Boeing.

We do not want the peace of slaves nor the peace of the grave.

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!