'Write what you know' works, but it's limiting. Write what fascinates you. Write what you can't stop thinking about.

For artists, there's a very fine line between delusion and belief.

What unifies every part of my journey is I always lead with my curiosity, obsession, or fascination.

Everyday, it's about building a practice that enables you to try and forget that you're afraid.

All screenwriting books are bullshit, all. Watch movies, read screenplays. Let them be your guide.

Hollywood is a land of self-invention.

Maybe the price of forgetting that even in America, even in New York City, when a man back home is talking, you better listen closely.

Maybe the price of forgetting that even in America, even in New York City, when a man from back home is talking, you better listen closely. (Dark City Lights)

It was her laughter that made me love her. Her shy inappropriate madness is what made her beautiful.

If God places a child before you, and you are too busy to wield either a positive or negative influence...you just did the later! You communicated that the child doesn't matter and isn't important.

We must not let our passions destroy our dreams.

If people don't believe the source, then we aren't going to change their minds. We just won't.

Our meeting, touching, accidentally connecting immediately, interwoven hand-in-hand, heart-to-heart.

Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period

Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.

What once was an expression of who I was - acting - also became my hiding place.

Marriage is an exclusive union between one man and one woman, publicly acknowledged, permanently sealed, and physically consummated.

Helping someone is what life is all about.