I feel like there's a certain kind of laughter missing in the world.

In a cement park across the street is this giant sculpture. It is a giant umbrella frame lying on its side. It's green. Stand under it, during a rainstorm, you'll still get wet - that's why it's art.

People are usually pretty hungry after a funeral. I guess it's because we all realize that time is running out and we better eat all we can. Please don't mention that to my mother.

I don't want to write my life. I live my life. I want to make up a new world.

I want to write stories that don't help you escape life, but embrace life.

There is nothing more depressing than toast that no one eats.

People love conversation, and movies are conversations, and an audience has to participate; it has to fill in some blanks.

I spent so many years trying to become an actor, trying to be a person that I wasn't.

I want to make accessible movies for bright people, but I don't want to play games and be coy.

The bigger the budget, the less an audience is trusted, and that's the difference between a big-budget film and a small-budget film.

My job as a dramatist is to find out where these characters want to go, and make it as hard as possible for them to get there.

I have to convince myself every night that I love you before I go to sleep lest I wake up empty.

loving someone is weakness .as well as strength for self . which one you want to use ?

If you can't change your fate change your attitude.

I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.

Better ways to diagnose, treat and prevent E. coli 0157:H7 infections are badly needed.

[AIDS ] is not a short-term emergency but it is something that, just like smallpox was many decades ago, we should aim for complete eradication.

For some reason, I struggle seeing myself as a leading man.

In those days [the 1790s],the students paid their professors directly for the lectures-typically about three guineas a class (a guinea was worth slightly more than a pound).

Do you wanna leave soon? No, I want enough time to be in love with everything... And I cry because everything is so beautiful and so short.

The acts we engage in for appeasment today, we will have to remedy at far greater cost and remorse tomorrow.