A Western would be good. I'd love to do a Western.

Nobody feels like an adult. It's the world's dirty secret.

The main thing on film is you want to be innocent to the moment.

Without social identity, there is, in fact, no society.

When there is tension, arguments and money problems, it's tough to do your work. Some people thrive on that. I don't.

There's nothing like walking onto a Hollywood sound stage.

I don't watch the dailies. You want to just turn in your resignation when you watch the dailies.

Any time you die in a film, it's not real, so it's all kind of fun.

Life is too god damn short and you can't waste a minute of it.

But I loved making Eat Pray Love, and I loved working with Julia Roberts.

The end comes, no matter what. The only thing that matters is, how do you want to go out, on your feet or on your knees?

After the leaves have fallen, we returnTo a plain sense of things. It is as ifWe had come to an end of the imagination, Inanimate in an inert savoir.

Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of Christ risen.

From my writer's workshop, "Know when it's time to put everything you've got on the page. Then, rip open a vein and do it!

Happiness can only exist in acceptance.

Life is much larger than how we image it, always, but society can be constricting in ways.

Slaveholders deployed so-called scientific racism to justify racial slavery.

I'm not into red carpet looks where it's clear the woman wanted to look like a pretty, pretty princess.

For most of our history, no one dared to tell Americans, you don't build that.

May the strength of God pilot us, may the wisdom of God instruct us, may the hand of God protect us, may the word of God direct us. Be always ours this day and for evermore.

I have a paper cut from writing my suicide note. It's a start.