Liken yourself to a beautiful part of creation.

The difference between "active" and "busy" is that the former includes reflection and is directed, whereas the busy life feels out of control and does not seem purposeful or meaningful.

Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness.

Sceptics are persuaded by a good reputation, for it is an unspoken statement of proof.

What a man is is an arrow into the future, and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.

A critical discourse that had respect for the mystery of art would look to the sense of life which finds expression in paradox, metaphor, tautology, and syntax.

I can do lovers. I can do Sir Galahad types. I'm not going to limit myself in voice-overs to irascible old men.

Complete masculinity and stupidity are often indistinguishable.

Athletics is in my blood.

Ultimate stupidity: Mistakenly thinking you will get what you want by complaining about and focusing on exactly what you don't want.

I really think the key to a film is the chemistry of people.

But it's our curse and our blessing to remember the past and to know there's a future. —Charlie