Making a movie is like making an ocean voyage, and the script is your ship.

My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.

I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.

If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.

Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.

Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.

If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

I don't know what to say so I'll just say what's in my heart...badoom, badoom, badoom.

Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.

Stick to a task, 'til it sticks to you. Beginners are many, finishers are few." -Anonymous, as quoted in Small and Simple Things.

Roy: "Looks like it's starting to rain"Riza: "But..It's not raining..."Roy: "Yes it is. This is the rain.

...there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.

There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.

I think nobody can explain why some people win and why some people lose. It really doesn't always have to do much with talent. It has to do with how you deal with pressure.

I am a machine, condemned to devour them and then, throw them, in a changed form, on the dunghill of history.

I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though.

Men have solicitude about fame; and the greater share they have of it, the more afraid they are of losing it.

I wondered if people might not have had enough of Simon Armitage and wondered whether I hadn't had enough of Simon Armitage.