Women are pretty good. Women usually fight about some stupid guy and then when they figure out it's just a stupid guy they make up and move on.

It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

Learn to work with people you wouldn't go to lunch with.

If you’ve got the comedy eye, you can look at any situation and see the humor in it while others don’t.

I am a total believer of making the process a good time - make it memorable, have some fun, try to shoot high in your quality and then dont get crazy, see what happens.

Never underestimate the power of your sister.

There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it

You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.

Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing

I think a lot of creative people have no sense of numbers and economics.

I'm too old to be forced.

Tell no man anything, for no man listensYet hold thy lips ready to speak.

The key to failure is ignoring Cosmic Ordering.

The most formidable way to lead is to serve. And while the perplexing oxymoron of such a grinding statement absolutely cripples us, it birthed a Savior.

For appearances. Now there's a lovely thing to die for.

As an actor, if you were to simplify what acting really is, it's about letting go.

Intimacy doesn't have all that much to do with backseats of cars. Real intimacy is brushing your teeth together.

Who are you to end a war? I am here to tell you - who are you not to?

They were enjoying it. Whether they were faking or not, they were enjoying it.

A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.

The library is our house of intellect, our transcendental university, with one exception: no one graduates from a library. No one possibly can, and no one should.