What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world.

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.

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.

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.

Without living, how can you know? Without knowing, how can you speak?

Scared, Angel?

Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.

Take a trip to the forest and experience the greatness of getting on your knees and picking your own food and going home... and eating it.

And when you clear away the cobwebs of the description of every job in the world, at the bottom of that job is service. It's service. And I took that ethic and applied it to my writing craft.

If I made a mistake in singing a song or in the script, I could have some fun with it, then retain any of the fun that sounded amusing.

Without the Yamas, known as the ethical rules, there is no success in Yoga

I dont want to repeat my mistakes.

Whatever you do, it's over when you do it - but first you have to do it.

It is remarkable, in cats, that the outer life they reveal to their masters is one of perpetual boredom.