You should just write the movie based on people you actually know and then just see who wants to play it. Cast the net.

The audience cares what the movie looks like, not about the sleepless night you had worrying about the thing getting developed.

If we continue as we have for the past 20 years in California, in the year 2020, everybody in the State will either be in prison or running one.

Life affirming doesn't mean good things happen.

Actors want to work with you but they want you to do their thing. Actors, whom I love with a blind partiality, sometimes they want to be soloists in the symphony, not a part of the orchestra.

The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable.

I don't envy the job of people who have to watch five movies a day - that's insane.

There are very few movies in English about romantic obsession told with a seriousness of purpose.

The conventional wisdom is that people come to the United States, and immigration is so great, and they say, 'America, what a great country.' And a lot of that is true.

Americans have always been excellent at making romantic comedies - but dramatically, we don't really try to do it.

The state of being in love is so inherently preposterous. It usually lends itself to romantic comedy. I think we've all been there.

In politics, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas - no feelings, but interests.

The core of your true self is never lost. Let go of all the pretending and the becoming you've done just to belong.Curl up with your rawness and come home. You don't have to find yourself

I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.

I grew up in the middle of everything. I walked the streets alone, I rode the trains alone, I came home at three in the morning alone; that was what I did.

And we all vied, in saving face, to be the greatest student of human nature, the person with the quickest sense of humor.

I am sure that you will never end war with wars.

The youth of this country are not behind what is going on. We all know that. If you looked at a [political] map of the United States 25 and under, it's all-revealing. It's a unified map.

I personally love heights and roller coasters, I'm such an adrenaline junkie.

I remember looking at the sky and thinking that the universe is so big and it's all chaos. I call it 'the dark fear.' At any moment, the dark fear could come in.