When I write a screenplay - and I think this is true for a lot of people - you direct the movie. Thats what writing a screenplay is.

Whatever you do in terms of telling a story, the most important thing that you can define is who you are.

Theatre is the safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done.

There are people who...tell you that the light in your heart is a weakness. Don't believe it! It's an old tactic of cruel people to kill kindness in the name of virtue.

Everything is painful, so why not be honest about the pain?

I'd like to thank everybody who ever punched or kissed me in my life and everybody who I ever punched or kissed.

Where the terror is, you must go.

I think that certainty is a closed door, It's the end of the conversation. Doubt is an open door.

Monogamy is like a 40-watt bulb. It works, but its not enough.

I have doubts! I have such doubts!

Trying to lead an interesting life, a fruitful life, is a big challenge.

If you must love your neighbor as yourself it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.

[I] educate people to be kinder to each other, and to other life-forms. There has been racism, sexism and now there is 'species-ism.' People think that they are better than other creatures.

In business, there are times when you disagree, and sometimes it turns out that you're just plain wrong. Humor takes away tension and helps you realize you're wrong.

Modern man drives a mortgaged car over a bond-financed highway on credit-card gas.

When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.

This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother.

Most actors and actresses are consumed by careers and getting ahead.

There are no super saints, only those that don't quit.

Sometimes it’s more a matter of collaboration which matters in a collection.

You can make a lot of speeches, but the real thing is when you dig a hole, plant a tree, give it water, and make it survive. That's what makes the difference