When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

Indie film isn’t dead. It just grew up.

You know, there's a million fine looking women in the world, dude, but they don't all bring you lasagna at work. Most of 'em just cheat on you.

One man's frankness is another man's vulgarity.

In the face of such hopelessness as our eventual, unavoidable death, there is little sense in not at least trying to accomplish all of your wildest dreams in life.

If you're alive, kick into drive. Chase whimsies. See if you can turn dreams into a way to make a living, if not an entire way of life.

Don't let anybody tell you different, man: The main goal in life careerwise should always be to try to get paid to simply be yourself.

More often than not, a hero’s most epic battle is the one you never see; it’s the battle that goes on within him or herself.

I try never to worry in general. Worry is interest paid in advance on a debt that never comes due.

Keep your focus on what YOU want to do - not what anyone else wants or is doing. You lose time watching others succeed.

In this life, if you don't celebrate yourself, nobody will.

What will the ego not do? It is the ego that has given rise to all this. And when the ego leaves, there is Liberation.

As I usually do when I want to get rid of someone whose conversation bores me, I pretended to agree.

I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you.

The government paid the family of Richard Nixon $18 million for papers, tape recordings and other materials seized after Watergate.

George Lucas doesn't have the most physical stamina. He was so unhappy making Star Wars that he just vowed he'd never do it again.

Organized money hates me--and I welcome their hatred!

In all great arts, as in trees, it is the height that charms us; we care nothing for the roots or trunks, yet it could not be without the aid of these.

I love the idea of people being themselves in films.

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

'American Dad' is, by its nature, much more political.