Hollywood is a land of self-invention.

For artists, there's a very fine line between delusion and belief.

What unifies every part of my journey is I always lead with my curiosity, obsession, or fascination.

'Write what you know' works, but it's limiting. Write what fascinates you. Write what you can't stop thinking about.

Everyday, it's about building a practice that enables you to try and forget that you're afraid.

All screenwriting books are bullshit, all. Watch movies, read screenplays. Let them be your guide.

Maybe the price of forgetting that even in America, even in New York City, when a man back home is talking, you better listen closely.

Maybe the price of forgetting that even in America, even in New York City, when a man from back home is talking, you better listen closely. (Dark City Lights)

Knowledge is God, respect it to get respect.

There never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death.

It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

My solo album is dead and buried. We had the funeral. It was sad and I cried a lot but it made such a beautiful corpse that we had an open casket.

Still to the sufferer comes, as due from God, a glory that to suffering owes its birth.

The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world.

My best experiences with movies have come when I didn't know what to see.

I get more anxious than nervous before a concert.

The things that are hardest to do are often the things that are the best to do.