When you encounter that first love, a young love, you do feel that your story is original. You are utterly convinced that your story has never been told before, because it hasn't.

If you can imagine missing feeling sad, it's the only thing worse than pain.

Fellini was [David] Lynch's master and his biggest idol, and he believed in Fellini's view that film is a dream, it's not reality. It's all about delving into the unconscious.

After working with so many great actors and acting students in film school, it was a whole other thing working with Luke [Kirby].

If people are saying that somehow their connection is going to be detrimental to their health, of course they are going to reject that idea, because that's the power of falling like that.

Love is the most universal experience. There is nothing more important than love, there is nothing more meaningful than love, and there is nothing more human in people's relationships than love.

Emotions are what drives everyone. You get up in the morning and go do something because the emotion drives you to it.

I've never been so sure about the rest of my life than I am in this moment. This girl is the rest of my life.

A nation forgetting its own laughter is in a sad state of affairs

When Wine enters, out goes the Truth.

Men are my bread and butter. It's what I live for! I have no shame about that.

I know this... a man got to do what he got to do.

One of the most frightening things, I think, is the capacity for retroactive searching, so you can go back in time and trace who someone is in contact with and where they've been.

Gratitude is the realization that we have everything we need, at least in this moment.

Sometimes, to pursue a new idea, the artist must forfeit his deposit on an old idea.

Where hateful Death put on his ugliest mask.