Shame doesn't exist in the animal kingdom. It's a human conception.

Animals don't think in terms of victims and villains, or good and bad, or evil, or shame.

I don't think that any family has a function. I just think that a family is. It just exists.

What we gotta do is, we gotta figure out a way to reverse gravity, so that we all fall upward, through the clouds and sky, all the way to Heaven.

Everybody’s got rights. A man tied to a bed got rights. A man down in a dungeon got rights. A little screaming baby got rights. Yeah, you got rights. What you don’t got is power.

I totally bristle against words like "dysfunction" or "abuse."

We hit and we kept on hitting; we were allowed to be what we were, frightened and vengeful — little animals, clawing at what we needed.

I don't want you to be young and beautiful. I only want one thing. I want you to be kind-hearted - and not just towards cats and dogs.

My girlfriend is Jewish. But it's easier to buy her a Christmas present and then break it into 8 pieces.

Love is frightened at the intervals of insensibility and callousness that encroach by little and little on the domain of grief, and it makes efforts to recall the keenness of the first anguish.

A short story is simplification to the highest degree

You have your goals. They may be small goals or they may be large goals. As you strive to achieve your goals, sometimes your conditions change and your goals will change as well.

Much of my work has come from being lazy.

Relaxing is for the other guy.

I'll do any kind of movie, as long as it's a good version of it.

These numbers are staggering, in fact incomprehensible. By all accounts, we are dealing with the greatest health crisis in human history.

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.