One of my biggest lessons in life is, we heal at the speed of our forgiveness.

Hollywood is running out of money and in order to keep geetting a third financed, you have to rely on overseas funding, and in order to do that, you have to get recognizable names.

I do not have a daily routine, but each morning, I try to spend an hour in bed, visualizing positive outcomes for my life, health, and career.

I learned early in life that laughter is a great way to diffuse and uncomfortable situation, so I began to use that as a tool, throughout my life.

For my lifestyle, I believe in living 10 times below my means. As a result of that, I have the luxury of working only when I'm inspired.

Education, introspection, self-love and excellence are the only ways to overcome the wrath of ignorance

I'm one of those people for whom success is one thing, but significance is another. If I can have both, I'm living the dream.

Writing a funny story is one thing. But writing a funny story that inspires others to venture beyond their level of comfort in pursuit of their greater good is what makes me come alive.

My experience in the music industry made me very thick-skinned. Your art is something very personal and there's never a shortage of critics when it comes to art.

My goal in life is to bring to the screen really believable depictions that make you think, "Damn, I have to look within myself."

I don't want every fan; I'm interested in fans interested in quality work, authentic archetype depictions.

Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves.

Life is hell. You don't need a heart. All that is needed is to give into the dark.The heart is only required in the unreachable heaven.

If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs.

It is all right when God sends us the approval of our fellow men; however, we must never make that approval a motive in our life.

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

I don't want to be one of these people who's like, "Man, I don't know where my ideas come from and I don't know why this works."

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.

I took delight in hurling books across the room if I knew I would not be reading the second chapter. Then I’d go and pick them up again, because they are books, after all, and we are not savages.

It seems unfair that anyone can set up on Twitter using my name, or the name of any famous person, without any checks at all.

The doctor says he has to amputate all of me.