We’re all different in many ways and alike in many ways and special in some sort of way.

It’s happened before. It’s all happened before. History is worth shit.

Have you listened to your heart?

Don’t lose that anger. Just have a little more patience and forgiveness. For yourself as well.

How needy man is.

One should be able to have the man one loves.

The only safe place left is the dark.

Almost more than talent you need tenacity, and an infinite capacity for rejection, if you are to succeed.

I wrote "David" because it seemed to me that children, who can love a book more passionately than any grown person, got such a lot of harmless entertainment and not enough real, valuable literature.

If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito!

The depth of any story is proportionate to the protagonist's commitment to their goal, the complexity of the problem, and the grace of the solution.

It takes a lot of practices to get it right. The key is to keep practicing.

It feels good to have your work respected again.

When I go on vacation I just like to do nothing - just hang out at the beach, go eat the best restaurants, and do nothing.

I will promise you that if I can give you two good scenes -- which is what I always try to do in every movie -- then I feel like I'm doing my job.

The new soft totalitarianism that is advancing on the left wants to have a state religion. It is an atheist, nihilistic religion - but it is a religion that is obligatory for all

Many married couples separate because they quarrel incessantly, but just as many separate because they were never honest enough or courageous enough to quarrel when they should have.

I'm not greedy. I just want my half.