The ultimate 20-year plan is to be living in the Caribbean, writing, living off the land, eating from the ocean and probably smoking herb.

I have three sisters and I've always wanted a brother, so I was really interested in that notion.

Tarantino's stuff in its inception was all about finding a way for him to break into Hollywood.

My first film goes into production in October. It's called White Boy Shuffle and it's based on a novel about a young black kid and it's sort of reminiscent of Catcher in the Rye.

Where you raise your children isn't as important as how you raise your children.

The idea of doing something that you've seen a thousand times before doesn't appeal to me.

It's nice that people want to compliment you in some superficial way, but I've never considered that that's how I might be categorized. I guess it's better than being called ugly.

My sisters are my favorite people on earth.

A film goes through so many hands, that by the time it's done, it might not resemble what you thought you were making.

Granted, there are times when, for business reasons, you do something that's more mainstream. But even then, I try to find something that has a dark or subversive aspect.

I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds.

Humility is an essential quality in writers who want to write well.

I think Irish women are strong as horses, incredibly loyal and for the most part, funny, witty, bright and optimistic in the face of devastating reality.

A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.

I feel like there are so few girls in New York like that anymore, who are not focused on getting a man with money.

You are more important than your problems.

No matter how cynical I get, I can't keep up.

There are many stories I've wanted to write that I'm simply not able to - sometimes I haven't found the way in yet, and it doesn't matter how hard I try.

If you're unwilling to defer pleasure or endure some "pain" for now, are you likely to end up later deep in the hole?

You're in the arms of the Angels; may you find some comfort here.

I like the shaman very much, the way he was crying.