You know, you try to be diverse, and try to have fun and round things out.

The universe is dynamic. When we are creative, we are the most alive and in touch with it.

We all have an edge. We all are floating our psyche on top with a great ocean underneath.

I am they type of person that once I make a decision, I must execute. Maybe I am a perfectionist in this way.

If it's stage, the two most important artists are the actor and the playwright. If it's film, THE most important person is the director. The director says where the camera goes.

I have a 13-year-old daughter who rents these bloody horror movies, and I can't even walk into the room when she's watching them with her friends.

I was lucky. I had a lot of really good influences.

Of course, I would like to play the guy next door, but nobody's going to hire me for that kind of role.

I prefer film to the stage. I always like the rehearsal better than I like performing.

If it wasn't for the devil, we wouldn't be here, would we?

It is one of the great blessings of youth, this guiltlessness, the source of gentle sleep and peaceful days.

Happiness has no time limits or conditions

Silence propagates itself and the longer talk has been suspended the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it.

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

I'm a pluralist. I've always argued that as many different films as possible should be made.

An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion.

Emotion doesn't have to be happiness.

The Bible, contrary to what people think, actually puts forth a strong case for no free will, no free will.

I think that computer programming shows in my writing. Often when I write about computer programmers I'll write about the way that they see the world and they structure the world.