Sometimes you are ahead of people and sometimes people have blind spots. They can't see the world and they can't see what they do.

There is a lot of silence in watching somebody trying to remember things.

I always expose the apparatus. I show how the film was made. I acknowledge the filmmaker and the filmmaking.

I wanted my book to make people cry, but I feel like I'm the only person who my book is going to make cry, if they show me the sales numbers.

I'm better at being a lawyer than I am at being a writer.

I don't necessarily believe in the ideology of cinema verité. I think by the very fact that you have a camera there you are affecting the story and you are influencing it.

I love being a lawyer more than I like writing.

I had to break up with Medusa. I just got sick of buying mice for her hair. I should have ended it sooner, but you try looking into those eyes.

If there's three boxes that say 'Single', 'In a Relationship, ' and the third one says 'Getting Money', I'd check the third one.

The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.

Anything that loosens you up and makes you freer is good, because that's what acting and performing is all about - being free. It gives you a better connection to the audience.

the masses are everywhere they know how to do things: they have sane and deadly angers for sane and deadly things.

I actually washed my window once, and it fell through - it was being held together by the dirt.

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

Humility is not a character trait to develop, it's the natural by-product of being with Jesus.

Everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best.

What begins in arrogance often ends in shame.