But time has caught up with it and I think vindicated it. Shampoo, too: very dark, very ambitious movie.

Good dialogue illuminates what people are not saying

In dramatic writing, the very essence is character change. The character at the end is not the same as he was at the beginning. He's changed-psychologically, maybe even physically.

The straight roads are the roads of progress, the crooked roads are thee roads of genius.

You're dumber than you think I think you are.

Either you bring the water to L.A. or you bring L.A. to the water.

I'm not in business to be loved, but I am in business.

Finally, Colin Farrell showed up on my doorstep, only he wasn't Colin Farrell - he was just this Irish kid who had read the script and wanted to do it.

Larry Grobel senses there are no answers in life, only questions. Good ones.

And I think one way or another it's evident to those who work with me that as a writer, a director, a friend, as somebody's there that's very anxious to get the movie made.

I'm not supposed to be the one that's caught with his pants down.

I'm gonna fight for you, until your heart stops beating.

Science is no longer fiction, but Reality may become one.

Sometimes, things didn't always happen as we wanted them to.

There is always a choice. Always. So do not say, you had no choice. Good or bad, doing it or not, is about you, not choices. Always.

Her father was the face of her morning and night, he was everything, so saturating Havaa’s world that she could no more describe him than she could the air.

Life is the childhood of immortality.

The very first song I wrote was about a boy that I was obsessed with.

An ignorant man ages like an ox. His flesh may increase, but not his understanding.

Obama is like a chess player who is playing simultaneous chess and has opened his game with an unusual opening.

Tell me, was it you or your brother who was killed in the war?