We can all of us be hurt, and no one is exclusively safe from worry and sadness.

Luck was something you either earned or invented through strength of character. You had to come by it honestly; you could not trick or bluff your way into it.

The creak of bed springs suffering under the weight of a restless man is as lonely a sound as I know.

I lay in the dark thinking about the difficulties of family, how crazy and crooked the stories of a bloodline can be.

Come with me into the world and reclaim your independence. You stand to gain so much, and riches are the least of it.

He is not bad, I don't think. Perhaps he is simply too lazy to be good.

I do not know what it was about that boy but just looking at him, even I wanted to clout him on the head. It was a head that invited violence.

Our blood is the same, we just use it differently.

Work will drive you crazy if you let it.

I sighed. ‘It doesn’t matter what we do. Money comes and goes.’ I shook my head. ‘It doesn’t matter and you know it doesn’t.

I will never be a leader of men, and neither do I want to be one, and neither do I want to be led. I thought: I want to lead only myself.

To be different is to seek God earnestly

Spare no expense on the stuff that matters.

Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the country.

I just I don't feel challenged by acting anymore. I don't enjoy the process anymore.

It seems that we're better at finding someone to blame for our problems than we are at finding creative solutions to fix them.

I studied political science and international relations and had the intention of becoming a journalist or work in foreign affairs. I had no intention of making a film.

I'm a believer in film school.

If you find yourself in a movie that you have questions about, it's not a compromise to your integrity.