Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.

I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.

If you feed a bird, you don't have to force it to come to you.

The cross is almost a distraction and false advertisement for God.

["I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore" ] really jumped off the page. And there were so many specific notes within the context of the script. Music cues, for instance.

Shun the incremental and go for the leap.

After a brief period in which I had let many a Southern Californian convince me that it was all 'in my mind,' I am once again officially allergic to dogs.

Nowadays, when kids decide they like an artist, they'll absorb everything that artist has ever done in a single night.

I didn't write my poems because I wanted to, they were wrung from me. I had to write them.

Films take up so much time, and with theatre, you do have to plan a period of time that you can be free.

Oliver Stone. Is that not enough?

I began my education at a very early age; in fact, right after I left college.