Everyone I know who is having success in film right now is there because of persistence.

I guess I need a hobby. Currently my primary hobby is complaining.

I loved movies. They inspired me more than anything growing up and wanted to do for others what those movies have done for me. I do a lot of other creative stuff but am not very good at it.

Our brains will destroy ourselves if we don't put it outward.

We don't work in the traditional TV format where we're like writing concurrently to shooting. Like, we really view it as a large feature film.

I went to film school at UT Austin. I learned a lot and that school's good for puking up all your bad movies early and quick. But ultimately, no one can teach you to be an artist.

Most people in Hollywood are making about 10 percent of all the things they're considering; I am making 95 percent.

The worst question really comes from the attitude of the asker and it usually comes in the form of "What was your inspiration for the film?"

An interview is only as good as both parties are willing to give to the interview and that includes the interviewer.

Filmmaking is a very complex form - ya know, acting, lighting, screenwriting, storytelling, music, editing - all these things have to come together.

I read old poems I wrote. They were all about you.

Leaders' major question is "why". If they lose, they ask "why". If they win, they ask "why". Their "whys" weave their wonders.

I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny because it's ridiculous and it's ridiculous for different reasons at different times.

In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.

Circumstances break men's bones; it has never been shown that they break men's optimism.

My paintings at their best take that vocabulary and attempt to transpose that into a form that gives respect not only to the history of painting but also to those people who look and sound like me.

He who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

Of the many influences that have shaped the United States into a distinctive nation and people, none may be said to be more fundamental and enduring than the Bible.

And you can't help but worry for them, love them, want for them - those who go on down the close, foetid galleries of time and space without you.

Desire is never final, desire is imprecise and impractical [...]