Please don't continually say I'm paranoid.Why?It makes me paranoid.

The basic thing is, how frightened are you of chaos? And how happy are you with order?

If practicality and morality are polarized and you must choose, you must do what you think is right, rather than what you think is practical.

There are people among us who are biologically human but who are androids in the metaphoric sense.

We human beings are created and yet we are more rational than the creator himself who spawned us.

I used to condemn junkies, like they could get off the stuff if they really wanted to, and that is just as stupid as saying, "You could grow eyes in the back of your head if you really wanted to.

But what can be done, the one who loves must share the fate of the one he loves.

The days of the pushy salesmen and self-serving narcissists are over. That type of behavior quickly alienates and pushes people away because it offends and can’t be trusted.

The earthquake of discomfort you feel moving inside of you when someone insults you is your own insecurity.

What is being lost is the magic of the word. I am not an image person. Imagery belongs to another civilization: the caveman. Caveman couldn't express himself so he put images on walls.

P.T. Barnum said a sucker is born every minute, but his estimate was laughably low.

If you have never failed at anything, then you haven't been trying hard enough, aren't very imaginative, or have had such extraordinarily good luck that you have come to believe you are invincible.

The balance between confidence and humility is best learned through extensive experience and mistakes.

When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer.

I am not here only so that the blind might see, but to teach those who thought they could see that they are blind

But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics.