[Screenwriting] is no more complicated than old French torture chambers, I think. It's about as simple as that.

I took some time out for life.

I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy.

Things get very distorted when you do a movie, weirdly so.

I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy.

You become so obsessed, and that's not a bad thing for a movie. Serve it with that sense that it's the whole world.

I value comedy. I value somebody who can be funny.

Kids in general make things fresh and alive and they have this great appreciation for, Holy mackerel, we're making a movie!

A lot of things just aren't true any more.

It never stops, accepting that fact is difficult. I took some time out for life.

I've done it with Broadcast News-where there was no finish line, there was no agenda that I had to move all the characters to this point, that I was sort of open to what happens.

Odd, isn’t it? You know when your birthday is, but not your death day, even though you pass the date year after year, never suspecting that some day…

History does seem to be just one long succession of murders, doesn't it?

I expect some new phases of life this summer and shall try to get the honey from each moment.

You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.

Stripping away my ego and accepting my truth even if it's not who I want to see. Makes me want to be better when it's exposed. It's very vulnerable and exhilarating.

I find that all great directors, and I would include Ben Affleck and Clint Eastwood in that, they have great confidence. And with great confidence comes great freedom for the actor.

I have never cared much for people. Most of them are cowards, conformists, muddleheads, moneygrubbers, and they infect each other.

Every morning I wake up in a home where Mike Tyson previously laid in the bed and he earned over $500 million his career. It makes me conscious.

I'm afraid when too many people know too much about you, it actually makes us all a lot more boring because you're afraid to express yourself.

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