People will go to clean theaters; they don't like to go to dirty theaters.

One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.

Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major.

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.

Hell is the impossibility of reason.

If you make the movie from your heart and it stands over time, that's what matters to me.

I'm a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.

Every day that you get up, it's some kind of victory if you're making a good product, or working on a project that can only help mankind.

I think our life is a series of adventures.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.

Vashti was seized with the terrors of direct experience. She shrank back into the room, and the wall closed up again.

If I keep grinning maybe my inoperable colon cancer won't hurt so much.

Defeat is not worth thinking about.

Every single human being is a unique human being. And, therefore, it's so criminal to do something to that human being, because he or she represents humanity.

The more you love, the more loving you become. That's just the way it works. It is a generosity of spirit.

Anyone who wants to know who I am can just read my lyrics - I've always written about who I am.

If you concern yourself with your neighbor’s talents, you’ll neglect your own. But if you concern yourself with yours, you could inspire both!

What does it mean to regret when you have no choice? It's what you can bear. And there it is... It was death. I chose life.

I was once in a long relationship with a man who ran a vintage clothes store but had been a chef, so I'd come home each night to a different three-course meal. I was quite fat, but so happy.

I think of myself as a very lazy writer, though other people see it differently.