The end comes, no matter what. The only thing that matters is, how do you want to go out, on your feet or on your knees?

Nobody feels like an adult. It's the world's dirty secret.

The main thing on film is you want to be innocent to the moment.

Without social identity, there is, in fact, no society.

When there is tension, arguments and money problems, it's tough to do your work. Some people thrive on that. I don't.

There's nothing like walking onto a Hollywood sound stage.

I don't watch the dailies. You want to just turn in your resignation when you watch the dailies.

Any time you die in a film, it's not real, so it's all kind of fun.

A Western would be good. I'd love to do a Western.

Life is too god damn short and you can't waste a minute of it.

But I loved making Eat Pray Love, and I loved working with Julia Roberts.

Alone, we are great, but together, we are better.

Learning is a friend on the journey; a wife in the house; medicine in sickness; and religious merit is the only friend after death.

I think it had something to do with my love of music, especially rock music.

I'm rather pleased with the new manuals. I see Inform now as a gauche young adult, having got past the stage of growing out of his shoes every few months.

Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established.

True masters are those who've chosen to make a life rather than a living.

A good deed hidden in silence dies.

The Greek playwrights, we're all beholden to them, every one of us.

Tell X that speech is not dirty silence Clarified. It is silence made still dirtier.

There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.