I don't know if there's a lot of patience anymore. I think that could serve a lot of people.

I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere.

Mercury poisoning sounds like a rich man's disease . . . like something you might get from the leather seats in your Lamborghini.

If someone mistakes your kindness for weakness, that's their fault - not yours. And it's OK to be a decent human being in this life.

If masturbation is a crime then I should be on death row.

Sometimes - this is a tough one - not everyone can handle the truth. Sometimes you have to take a beat. But if you can take that beat, and take the high road, it'll serve you in the long run.

The Dalai Lama was once asked for his favorite chant, and he said it was better not to have a favorite anything, which I think is a great thought.

Unless an entire row of people got up in the middle of a performance and left the theater in disgust, I felt as though I hadn't done my job.

I want to be radical on the inside, but not on the outside.

We all have so many different elements inside of us and we're not all one thing.

What's this? You're wearing the shirt of the band you're going to see? Don't be that guy.

It was almost as if she had willed him into existence, into standing before her at the precise moment she was willing to accommodate him, arriving not a minute too early or too late.

Where you hang your feelings is where you hang your focus.

Books always attract my attention.

There is a shade of red for every woman.

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.

Artists disbelieve and dispute society's most cherished notions.

Just like becoming an expert in wine, you learn by drinking it, the best you can afford.

My soul to-day Is far away Sailing the Vesuvian Bay.

Getting offended is a great way to avoid answering questions that make you sound dumb.

I think too many film students in America are losing the artistry and not learning lighting the right way.