Most of the good executives do pretty well. Because to be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage.

Charging a man with murder in this place was like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500.

Everybody's a filmmaker today.

I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways.

Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.

I may not be the strongest guy or the most well armed, but you can put me in a room with a pencil and a piece of paper and I can kill anybody.

The people that really pass judgment on you really have nothing to do with what you do, usually.

I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden.

Most artists think they're frauds anyway.

I mean, the old film critics just excoriated me.

I suppose when I started out I would have liked to have been the darling of critics or something, but everybody wants to be loved and admired.

The soft, fluttering cry of a barn owl rose over the churchyard. Silent men flowed out of the dark.

Theere is an imperative to be in a process, the energy & consciousness of life means for us to be constantly observing, learning & becoming.

A good antidote to the reasons why you worry is never to worry about the reasons why you worry, for the reasons why you worry will always make you worry about the reasons why you worry

Forgot to live-tweet the election last night, so I'm post-tweeting today. I'll start as soon as my fingers unclench from their rage fists.

Most champions are built by punch the clock workouts rather than extraordinary efforts.

It struck me that Albania was the sort of place that might keep a man from yawning.

Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys, and women more than men.

Good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don't hurt.

Technology is ruled by two types of people: those who manage what they do not understand, and those who understand what they do not manage.

You wanted happiness, I can’t blame you for that, and maybe a mouth sounds idiotic when it blathers on about joy but tell me you love this, tell me you’re not miserable.