Don't compromise when you're right.

I liked to think I had written 'scripts' when I was in high school, but looking back at them, they were about thirty pages of wannabe-Mamet dialogue with a staple through them.

The best thing you can give me is your time. The easiest way to get me angry is to waste my time.

Actors want to work. Give them characters they want to play, or a story they want to tell, and hopefully the budget will follow.

For me, modern technology has ruined romance and movies - nobody can run to the airplane gate anymore.

I escaped to New York, and then L.A., but when I dream of home, I still dream of my old house in Holmdel.

We didn't miss it. This is it. C'mon. You wanna go home?

Routine is part of coping.

What do they call it, Y.O.L.A., you only live once? I think people are sort of gravitating towards that.

Make the movie your way. Surround yourself with people who know more than you.

I think when you take forever off the table, it does something really interesting to what you think is important.

Goals are important but what you become to achieve goals is much more important.

Ambition is the path to success, persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

If necessity is the mother of invention, scientifically developed production is the mother of scientific research.

Memories are the only real gifts we can leave our children.

Each one of us must carry within the proof of immortality, it cannot be given from outside of us. To be sure, everything in natureis change but behind the change there is something eternal.

To any white body receiving the light from the sun, or the air, the shadows will be of a bluish cast.

The grand style is available now only in old poems, museums, and parodies.

When you're writing theology, you have to say everything all the time, otherwise people think you've deliberately missed something out.

If you cannot speak your brokenness, your brokenness will speak for you.

My looks have prevented people from seeing my work.