The film is not a success until it makes money. It's only good when there's a dollar figure attached to the box office.

The more you expose yourself as a celebrity, the less interesting you are to watch in your work, because if you're putting yourself out there all the time, you're not holding anything back.

Being on a movie set is like one long financial crisis.

Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?

Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.

Texas women have an amazing sense of purpose when they lose it. They're the best girls in the world - they're loyal and fun, but when they get mad, they'll try to kill you.

I've seen the people who talk about their love lives in print invariably have doomed relationships with the person they're talking about.

A lot of people are not meant to be together.

I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.

Maybe the absence of signs is a sign.

I have a bit of a rebellious nature.

All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either.

Make every day count, because you're never promised a next day.

When you frequently invest your time and energy in your own business, the need to mind other people's business would become a stranger in your thoughts.

No evil is honorable: but death is honorable therefore death is not evil.

I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. What hours, O what black hours we have spent This night!

I've named a couple things after Edgar Allan Poe: the cat, and my garden upstate, where I only planted black flowers and purple flowers - and there's a raven statue.

The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.

I love to create and that's what gives my soul the satisfaction.

It's the most rewarding thing to be a civil servant.

Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.