Some people are just not going to like me and they're not going to like my work. But that doesn't mean I'm a bad person.

I have gone insane. I won't be talking with you for a while.

Try to be as good a listener as you are a speaker. Don't just put the emphasis on saying things. Listen.

The first time I saw 'Sunset Boulevard' I was probably eight or nine years old, and it really struck me how it's so simply put and elegant, yet there's so much going on.

I really believe that if you're going to bring a child into the world, it's your job to parent that world. Especially if it's just you; you don't pawn her off on somebody.

I may not be wealthy; I'm living from pay check to pay check, but I get to make movies, which is what I love to do.

When you love something, it never goes away.

For me, I was given a great gift by my father and my mother in that I was never told any idea was bad. I was told I could explore any thought as long as I wasn't hurting someone else.

My father is so jolly, and I live a really happy life. I think that's why all my interest in the darker things in films comes up: because I'm curious about things I don't live in.

Pressure is an emotional paralysis. It's hard enough to do the dishes when you're feeling pressured, let alone make a movie.

I'm a huge fan of Akira Kurosawa, a big Hitchcock fan.

The mind is a universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

They have involved co-operation between the Iraqi intelligence and al-Qaeda operatives on training and combined operations regarding bomb making and chemical and biological weapons.

I don't have a terrible singing voice, but I also wouldn't call it 'good.' I can carry a tune.

The root of suffering is attachment

The wise fools who sit in the high places of justice fail to see that in revolutionary times vital issues are settled not by statutes, decrees and authorities, but in spite if them.

The greatest detriment to many people's success tomorrow is their thinking today.

The novel since its origins has been the privatization of history... the history of private life ... and in that sense every novel is an historical novel.

I want to figure out how I can make the most important statement with the least amount of information, so I don't run out of ideas by the time I get to my second or third chorus.

He's the real deal. Eric Taylor was one of my heroes and teachers when I started playing around Houston in the early 1970s.