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

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.

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.

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

Success is not the end of the journey. It is the beginning of the expression of your infinite potential.

Someone somewhere may be one of the most important person to you currently but you will always be nothing more than a backup plan to them.

Music is a great healer.

We do not want to old to be sharper than we. It is bad enough that they were there first, and got the best things.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

I think that's what makes life interesting - the evolution of getting older, and it's kinda fascinating to me, the whole process.

I think even before I knew I wanted to be a rapper, I wanted to be an entertainer. I was really into Michael Jackson as a kid.

In comradeship is danger countered best.

Good poetry is like effective prayer, it feeds the human spirit, it nourishes, it puts us in touch with forces far greater than ourselves

Detach from emotions and desires; get rid of any fixations.