My older sister was at the cusp of new wave, and I had older brothers from my father's first marriage who were rock 'n' roll guys, so I was exposed to a lot of popular culture.

Screenwriting is like ironing. You move forward a little bit and go back and smooth things out.

I'll rebel against powers and principalities, all the time. Always, I will.

Acting is the hardest job in the entire world. By far. Harder than ditch digging.

It's a gamble you take, the risk of alienating an audience. But there's a theory - sometimes it's better to confuse them for five minutes than let them get ahead of you for 10 seconds.

My dad was this sort of avant-garde guy who did all kinds of weird things. He was a true original and anybody who met him never forgot him.

I am always looking for that nuance, that moment of truth, and you can't really do that fast.

My writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people.

You write who you are. But you also cheat, and youwrite what you want to be. It's embarrasing to be the guy who madethe movie, knowing you're not exactly who you want to be.

Film school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it.

There’s a lot for screenwriters to steal from songwriters, in terms of getting to the point.

The secret of high finance...if you really need a loan, you won't qualify. And if you don't need a loan, all the lenders will line up to give you money.

To have a real and long lasting relation partners should either have mutual goal or possess the same capabilities.

She promised him she would love him until she was physically unable to anymore and then after when all she could do was hold his photograph.

I give myself sometimes admirable advice but I am incapable of taking it.

National politics and elections are dominated by emotions, by lack of self-confidence, by fear of the other, by insecurity, by infection of the body politic by the virus of victimhood.

We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children, and the unborn.

My grandmother died of natural causes. Or as my family calls it murdered by the lord.

Anything is grand if it's done on a large enough scale.

If we say it long enough eventually we're going to reap a harvest. We're going to get exactly what we're saying.

The brain is the first broadcasting station ever invented.