Buying is more American than thinking, and I'm as American as they come.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.

I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'

Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.

You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.

I smoke pot because I want to go to heaven before I die

Fashion wasn't what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going.

It’s not what you are that counts, it’s what they think you are.

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

I have just read a long novel by Henry James. Much of it made me think of the priest condemned for a long space to confess nuns.

This is for you, for your breath, whose absence would lessen a greater world.

Thus, Marlowe posed the silent question: could aspiring Icarus be happy with a toilsome life on land managing a plough with plodding oxen having once tasted the weightless bliss of flight?

I like to be in pain when I'm getting massaged. That way I know I'm getting my money's worth.

Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.

Contentment is knowing you're right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong.

It's difficult to see yourself up on screen without being a critic.

The rulers of the country generally believed that betting eliminates strikes. Men had to work in order to gamble.

I was convinced that adults would realize more what they are capable of doing if it's shown through children's eyes.

One of the bigger misconceptions of learning is that many skills take a lifetime to get world-class at, or 10,000 hours to become world-class at.