We make too much of the good and too much of the bad.

Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.

I never knew what I wanted, except that it was something I hadn't seen before.

[The Player is] not a truthful indictment of Hollywood. It's much uglier than I portrayed it, but nobody would've been interested if I'd shown just how sadistic, cruel and self-orientated it is.

Your own ego is the only trap that I think you can fall into.

I love fishing. You put that line in the water and you don't know what's on the other end. Your imagination is under there.

Chance is another name that we give to our mistakes. And all of the best things in my films are mistakes.

I don't think screenplay writing is the same as writing - I mean, I think it's blueprinting.

If you have a child who is seven feet tall, you don't cut off his head or his legs. You buy him a bigger bed and hope he plays basketball.

All of my films deal with the same thing: striving, socially and culturally, to stay alive.

What is an ending? There's no such thing. Death is the only ending.

By dint of saying that I'm not alive, I accept the fact that people cease to regard me.

I do try and wear stuff by unknown designers, and I make sure I pay because if nothing else I have money.

If names are not correct, then language is not in accord with the truth of things. If language is not in accord with the truth of things, then affairs cannot be carried out successfully.

Life is a series of dreams, a series of interlocking awarenesses.

I'm still the same guy. My name is still Greyson Chance from Oklahoma. I grow much taller. But nothing really changes.

The work of your heart, the work of taking time, to listen, to help, is also your gift to the whole of the world

People spend all their time focused on things they can't control. In truth, there are only two things you can control: your attitude and your work ethic.

Lou Gerstner knows how to do a deal, and George Bush Sr., less so.

For many years I used the pronoun 'we.' Now, as in my youth, I go to sleep and wake up alone.

Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance