Think about it this way: If you had to launch your business in two weeks, what would you cut out?

What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan.

When you don’t know what you believe, everything becomes an argument. Everything is debatable. But when you stand for something, decisions are obvious.

It’s a lot harder to pull your head up and ask why.

It’s a beautiful way to put it: Leave the poetry in what you make. When something becomes too polished, it loses its soul. It seems robotic.

These are the best things I've ever had in my mouth!

Some never escape from the imprisoning conviction that a cold or unattainable lover can be persuaded to become warm or attainable if they only discover the key.

You know what my theory is? Accept me or go to hell.

We'll keep writing and if it hits our standards we'll go with it. We're not here to destroy anything. It's as precious to us as it is for someone who's followed us for years.

Finished products are for decadent minds.

Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing.

Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.

Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at first but it becomes beautiful later.

Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power.

And if I'm running away from something, I try to make myself face it and overcome that initial fear. As a director, I don't think it's possible to make a movie that you really don't want to make.