The conventional wisdom is that people come to the United States, and immigration is so great, and they say, 'America, what a great country.' And a lot of that is true.

The audience cares what the movie looks like, not about the sleepless night you had worrying about the thing getting developed.

You should just write the movie based on people you actually know and then just see who wants to play it. Cast the net.

If we continue as we have for the past 20 years in California, in the year 2020, everybody in the State will either be in prison or running one.

Life affirming doesn't mean good things happen.

Actors want to work with you but they want you to do their thing. Actors, whom I love with a blind partiality, sometimes they want to be soloists in the symphony, not a part of the orchestra.

The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable.

I don't envy the job of people who have to watch five movies a day - that's insane.

There are very few movies in English about romantic obsession told with a seriousness of purpose.

Americans have always been excellent at making romantic comedies - but dramatically, we don't really try to do it.

The state of being in love is so inherently preposterous. It usually lends itself to romantic comedy. I think we've all been there.

Thoughts are chemical. They can either kill us or cure us.

Food is very representative of a city's culture. In order to really get to know a place and the people, you've got to eat the food.

When a girl holds a rose up to you, you run better, let me tell you.

You’re so American. You believe everything is possible, everything will come. I know differently.

The world we suggest is a new wild west. A sensuous evil world. Strange and haunting, the path of the sun.

Going on stage and transcending the audience and becoming this otherworldly thing makes you a dancer. It's not so black and white.

A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.

I just personally really enjoy having a clean body. I shower twice a day. I just like feeling clean and feeling smooth.

I do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.