Treat [the people] as slaves, guard them against brigands, and they will come to regard themselves as slaves and brigands.

Only time will set you free, just like me

Human rights protection laws typically come under attack from those who made these laws necessary to begin with.

Money doesn't buy happiness, but it does pay for therapy.

Actors are inherently self-centered.

You're talking about meaning. I want to talk about the picture.

Somehow even tragedies seem less tragical, when you are the actors in them, than they look to outsiders

I make independent movies. I don't know how to do anything else. I don't know any other job that I could really get.

Don't you know that every perfect life would be the end of art?

I'd love to direct a film, but I don't think I have the temperament for it. I'm very hyper, and I want things to be done ASAP. If I turn director, I might end up killing my actors.

It takes pride to be anxious – I am not wise enough to know how my life should go.