Well I'd really love to work with Robert De Niro, because he's still the most talented actor out there.

My older sister was at the cusp of new wave, and I had older brothers from my father's first marriage who were rock 'n' roll guys, so I was exposed to a lot of popular culture.

Screenwriting is like ironing. You move forward a little bit and go back and smooth things out.

I'll rebel against powers and principalities, all the time. Always, I will.

Acting is the hardest job in the entire world. By far. Harder than ditch digging.

It's a gamble you take, the risk of alienating an audience. But there's a theory - sometimes it's better to confuse them for five minutes than let them get ahead of you for 10 seconds.

My dad was this sort of avant-garde guy who did all kinds of weird things. He was a true original and anybody who met him never forgot him.

I am always looking for that nuance, that moment of truth, and you can't really do that fast.

My writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people.

You write who you are. But you also cheat, and youwrite what you want to be. It's embarrasing to be the guy who madethe movie, knowing you're not exactly who you want to be.

Film school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it.

At some point you have to stop crossing oceans for those who wouldn't jump puddles for you.

It rained toads the day the White Council came to town.

Us atheist people, we believe we have to act properly and honestly for a moral principle and not because we expect an award in Paradise.

Commuter - One who spends his life in riding to and from his wife a man who shaves and takes a train and then rides back to shave again.

I am a man and all that affects mankind concerns me

Chuckling to herself, Nancy said aloud, "Romance and detective work won't mix tonight!

John Paul II made it clear that... liberation theology based on the teaching of Jesus Christ was necessary, but liberation theology that used a Marxist analysis was unacceptable.

What I do, the teacher of the nagual, is open up the bubble of your luminosity and allow the luminous being to take short excursions into the unknown.

The Christian's comfort: I am not my own. I do not make my own rules or create my own identity. There is one who made me and can save me.

I am considered an icon at the age of 20 when people like after 40s or after they die are considered icons. It's just amazing!