Suburbia is too close to the country to have anything real to do and too close to the city to admit you have nothing real to do.

Our brains are like bonsai trees, growing around our private versions of reality.

Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there.

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who know where their high school yearbook is and those who do not.

If you have to ask someone to change, to tell you they love you, to bring wine to dinner, to call you when they land, you can't afford to be with them.

Unless you are a professional, you will find the tart to be a high-maintenance, unforgiving whistle-blower of a pastry.

I would gladly have accepted a heaping spoonful of nepotism when I got out of college and was looking for a job.

Book tours are such a little tapas meal of where I could live.

No affair that begins with such an orchestrated overture can end on a simple note.

Uniqueness is wasted on youth. Like fine wine or a solid flossing habit, you'll be grateful for it when you're older.

I like to try to do a little work before I do anything in the morning, even if it's a paragraph.

The fact is that we cannot drill our way to independence. We cannot drill our way to freedom, and we cannot drill our way to create jobs in this country.

As a filmmaker, I always took my inspiration from a filmmaker named Marcel Ophüls, who said, "I always have a point of view, but the trick is showing how hard it is to come to that point of view."

The most precious thing a human being has to give is time. There is so very little of it, after all, in a life.

We're all slight hypocrites who fall short of our ideals.

...to many it is not knowledge but the quest for knowledge that gives greater interest to thought-to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

Film is like a personal diary, a notebook or a monologue by someone who tries to justify himself before a camera.

He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.

I went out to some advertising agencies and asked if I could do anything.

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.

I've always been a fan of just extreme things. Whether it be in movies, books, TV or real life.