With my horror movies or with this movie [Valley of Violence], same thing. The subtext of this movie is what to take away from it. Plot is never something that's been my driving force as a filmmaker.

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

Everyone's always telling you to be humble. When was the last time someone told you to be great?

Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?

Even a broke clock is right twice a day

Life is 5% what happens, and 95% how you react.

This is my life homie, you decide yours

Believe in your flyness...conquer your shyness

Nothing in life is promised except death.

There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie.

Everything I'm not makes me everything I am

If you don’t choose what you want, others will give you their choices.

With time, scars turn into wisdom.

I’ve had a lot of food but if you don’t jiggle me too much you can have your wicked way with me.

Decoration is really about creating a quality of life, and a beauty in that life that nourishes the soul, that makes life beautiful.

What's interesting about a person without problems?

It's very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.

I often find that people's reactions to the show say way more about them than they do about the show itself. I think that's because a lot of it happens between the lines.

I always admired Wonder Woman and the Incredible Hulk - but I don't know if I'd be a very convincing hulk.

The essence of the phenomenon of gambling is decision making. The act of making a decision consists of selecting one course of action, or strategy, from among the set of admissible strategies.

But make not more business necessary than is so; and rather lessen than augment work for thyself.