To me, the screenplay only becomes the Bible of the film after the actors have been cast.

You want to be entertaining to some degree. But honesty is always entertaining to me.

I was too crazy in my teenage years and I wasn't doing anything that made any sense.

Whether I'm writing the script, or someone else writes the initial draft, I'm always an actor's director first. I always try to listen to them a lot, and try to put their voices into their character.

I know that some great actors can transform, and that's fine. But I come from the school of thought that people put a version of themselves in their films.

I'm such a fan of actors, and also enjoy watching them work, so that I can help their acting in any way I can.

People who go to festivals to watch films are usually a little more eager to enjoy them. It's exciting, because it's like you're going to the film's opening night at every festival.

We were all the same. Kids from nowhere going nowhere. He always saw a light through the darkness. Knew the cracks let that light in, and that those cracks could suck you up.

take free food or tea from anyone talking about Godand find Heavenits gotta be out therefor there must be Godand how could any talk of good or God be wrong

You will manage to keep a woman in love with you, only for as long as you can keep her in love with the person she becomes when she is with you.

According to most studies on the subject, boys who grow up without fathers grow up at a disadvantage.

Life was a short window and there was no sense in doing the wrong thing over and over even if it was so difficult to stop.

The greatest wisdom often consists in ignorance.

I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.

She realized all at once the deeper thing that bothered her, the thing that made him not just irritating but intolerable: how he kept loving her blindly when she deserved it so little.

The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army, by running flop-houses and disturbing the peace.

There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant.

Bankruptcy as a solution in kind of un-American.

No matter through what realms of the fantastic you may travel, you arrive inevitably at the commonplace.