The major studios are by and large banks, and they give you what is by and large a loan to make a movie. Like banks, they want their money back plus.

Well, look at all of these summer blockbusters. You can't help but laugh a little, because you've already seen a lot of these movies 482 times.

I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one.

It's only in innocence you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.

The bottom line is, you love your wife, you do your best with that.

There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.

I'm not a breakfast eater.

That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too.

There is no shame in my saying that we all want to be loved.

So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in.

When everything gets answered, it's fake.

Do you love him?"There were only a few people in the world who could ask me such insanely personal questions without getting punched. Dimitri was one of them.

You make my heart shake bend and break

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

The unique personality which is the real life in me, I cannot gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others.

They're so cold, these scholars! May lightning strike their food so that their mouths learn how to eat fire!

What happens to us all, I think, when we pick up a pen, is that we just become snobs.

Literary characters, like my grandmother's apparitions, are fragile beings, easily frightened; they must be treated with care so they will feel comfortable in my pages

Worship the spirit of criticism.

I allow a lot of room for improvisation and funny stuff. I always feel planned.

it is better in the long run to be cheated than to cheat. I have learned that there is no middle way.