I'd come into filmmaking as a painter so, for me, making 'Good Will Hunting' was experimental because I didn't know how to do it.

Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.

I used to take photographs just to remember people.

For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad.

I was once a shameless, full-time dope fiend.

Now the music industry is sort of like a Craigslist venture, right? Where you're making your own records and selling them online.

I'm normally drawn to something I haven't done and seen before.

The area of teenage life is not necessarily rarefied; we've all gone through that period. It's not as rarefied as a western or a space adventure or a gangster film, but it has its own dynamic.

Sometimes getting upset with yourself is necessary when you face the truth.

Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.

I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything.

I'm a pretty patient guy when it's something worth waiting for.

When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.

I wasn’t dying alone. My beloved was dying with me.

If you made a better rat than a human, it’s not much to boast about, Peter.

A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions

The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before.

You look at what Vladimir Putin is doing with President Obama. He's, like, toying with him. He's toying with him.

What I think is that we in the church - and especially I as an Archbishop - I'm responsible for maintaining our rules, and making sure we hold to unity in the Body of Christ.

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

It is not so essential to think much as to love much.