I can't be the only person that's like, "Why am I in love with this guy just because he makes me feel bad?" I can't be the only person in the world who's had that feeling.

I like to think of characters in relation to other cinematic characters.

Without the benefit of Google, ask anybody to name more than five female filmmakers that have made more than three films. It's shockingly hard.

I've been in love with my best friend and not been able to tell that person.

I've really carelessly gotten out of relationships that were incredibly destructive instead of being honest.

I've slept with men that are unavailable, I've fallen in love with people I don't know.

When it comes to dating, you're not as crazy as you think you are.

Watching my own past heartache and experience day after day - it was gut-wrenching, cathartic, beautiful, and painful. That and shooting the film in less than a month.

I focus on darker things or bad behavior or explicit dialogue because creatively I am more interested in my mistakes and why I made them than my good deeds and my achievements.

I want people to understand and recognize that when it comes to dating, you're not as crazy as you think you are. Everyone needs love. We need it like air or water. We just don't know how to get it.

I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future plusses.

Whatever may happen, the memories of then will always remain, ever so sweetly with me, nothing to tarnish it. Not even the ugliness of reality.

Passion creates, addiction consumes.

There's nothing wrong with being a cop. There's nothing wrong with being a white person. It's about where your heart is...We've got to get everyone beyond the xenophobic isolationism.

[Our self-image is] that gap between intention and effect

I think with new president Chris Pook of CART, he is very active and strong.

Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements.

Everything you need is within reach, the key is whose going to reach

'The whole world loves a lover' is an interesting theory, but a very bad legal defense.

King's an equal opportunity dirtbag, he screws everybody.