Well, you just know, as a writer, I didn't really write one of the five best screenplays of the year. There were lots of brilliant screenplays; I was just one of the lucky ones who got nominated.

I don't love you anymore. Goodbye.

Alice: It's the only way to leave. "I don't love you anymore. Goodbye." Dan: Supposing you do still love them? Alice: You don't leave.

Alice: I don’t love you anymore. Goodbye. Dan: Since when? Alice: Now. Just now.

I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.

Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.

A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.

I'm a Golden Globe nominee, yes. It's very nice. It's a very nice thing, but I kind of think of all the awards I wasn't ever nominated for, for years and things.

I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.

When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.

When I look back I can't believe I was so stupid as to direct Dealer's Choice.

When we have clarity on our destination and are grounded in our current reality, we are equipped to make the best decisions possible.

Inaction is the worst action of human beings!

It is at night that faith in light is admirable.

There is no finer guitarist than Kenny Burrell

Art without technique is invertebrate, shapeless, characterless.

And that one hunting, which the Devil design'd For one fair female, lost him half the kind.

We speak for them. We imbue them with meaning.

There comes a time when a man and woman realize that their separate schemes can be better achieved as a conspiracy.

I'm not a human being. I'm despicable and disgusting - but that's where the money is.

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