Most of my nightmares that jolt me awake either involve the cosmos or something completely out of human control. In reality, I worry more about nuclear war, or war in general.

I liked to think I had written 'scripts' when I was in high school, but looking back at them, they were about thirty pages of wannabe-Mamet dialogue with a staple through them.

The best thing you can give me is your time. The easiest way to get me angry is to waste my time.

Actors want to work. Give them characters they want to play, or a story they want to tell, and hopefully the budget will follow.

For me, modern technology has ruined romance and movies - nobody can run to the airplane gate anymore.

I escaped to New York, and then L.A., but when I dream of home, I still dream of my old house in Holmdel.

We didn't miss it. This is it. C'mon. You wanna go home?

Routine is part of coping.

What do they call it, Y.O.L.A., you only live once? I think people are sort of gravitating towards that.

Make the movie your way. Surround yourself with people who know more than you.

I think when you take forever off the table, it does something really interesting to what you think is important.

Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.

When people give advice, they're really just talking to themselves in the past.

I shot the sheriff, but I didn't shoot no deputy.

Blame it on the lies that killed us. Blame it on the truth that ran us down.

Synchronistic events provide an immediate religious experience as a direct encounter with the compensatory patterning of events in nature as a whole, both inwardly and outwardly.

Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit.

People trust that a guy who can bring up two kids on his own might be able to help them.

There are several ways to lay out a little garden; the best way is to get a gardener.

It had to go in, but it didn't.

To call "A Lot like Love" dead in the water is an insult to water.