That was always my hope that that is exactly what I would do. It was always part of the dream of this story - to write the novel and then direct the movie.

Downtown. Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.

She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time.

There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.

Old pictures look very rugged and young, and the people in the photographs always seem a lot happier than you are.

We accept the love we think we deserve.

I really think that everyone should have watercolors, magnetic poetry, and a harmonica.

Maybe these are my glory days, and I'm not ever realizing it because they involve a ball.

And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.

please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you.

And I guess I realized at that moment that I really did love her. Because there was nothing to gain, and that didn't matter.

The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more

I believe friends enclose us, like a pair of parentheses. Each one knows us differently, each sustains us in a different way.

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

The eye will have his part.

Perfection is the measure of heaven, and the wish to be perfect the measure of man.

If you happen to have a spare $100 million floating around, then you're my producer.

Security is a false God. Begin to make sacrifices to it and you are lost.

The purpose of painting is to decorate the walls. Therefore it has to be as rich as possible

Truths ... are too often considered as so true, that they lose all the power of truth, and lie bed-ridden in the dormitory of the soul, side by side with the most despised and exploded errors.

I guess after Dances With Wolves they probably tried some derivative westerns, and if they didn't work, they said the western is dead and moved on to something else