Directing is a really kind of amazing thing, because you're helping others and, in the middle of that, you have to worry about yourself.

I know I wasn't as handsome as some other guys, but I was OK with that.

All over the world, young men and young women will always dream dreams.

The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.

The ambition, the drive, the wanting to be the center of attention, the wanting to succeed... They're all inside me somewhere.

I didn't go out looking for negative characters; I went out looking for people who have a struggle and a fight to tackle. That's what interests me.

Don't let people treat you like a cigarette, they only use you when they're bored and step on you when they're done. Be like drugs, let them die for you.

I work constantly but I work at a lot of different things. You know, I run a theater company in New York, I direct plays, act in plays, in movies, so I try to keep it eclectic.

No one wants to be pretentious about what they do or take it seriously, because that is just weird.

I think you should be serious about what you do because this is it. This is the only life you've got.

To be loved, I think, is the thing that gets you up in the morning.

If the conscious falls into the unconscious you fall into a coma, and if the unconscious falls into the conscious and becomes conscious itself, you become enlightened, you become a Buddha, a Sosan.

Before the antidote arrives from Iraq The man with snake-bite will be dead.

Consider what kind of car you get. Buy cars and other products that have the least impact environmentally.

I still feel-kind of temporary about myself.

He did seem like a nice boy. Seeming and being are two different things.

I have 20,000 girlfriends, all around the world.

The first condition a community should set, if it aspires to be a nation, is to own the land whereon it lives, and supply its own needs.

Equanimity is calamity's medicine.

Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.

It costs you something to do good!