I like to work with people that I like hanging out with, that I admire, that are really smart and talented, and we can problem solve together.

In this life, it's not what you hope for, it's not what you deserve - it's what you take!

The thing about film-making is I give it everything, that's why I work so hard. I always tell young actors to take charge. It's not that hard. Sign your own cheques, be responsible.

When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you're either going to sink or you're going to swim.

Psychiatry is a pseudoscience.... You don't know the history of psychiatry. I do...Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, you don't even -you're glib. You don't even know what Ritalin is.

I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I'm going to do something, I go all the way.

No dream is ever just a dream.

Someday. That's a dangerous word. It's really just a code for 'never'.

Perception and reality are two different things.

I had to train myself to focus my attention. I became very visual and learned how to create mental images in order to comprehend what I read.

I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning.

Originality is not writing the story that has never been told, but writing the stories only you can tell.

Embrace all you do not just want - but, all you truly deserve.

I've always loved the fashion of the '30s and everything that came with the Art Deco era - the jewelry and the glamour.

I like my whisky old and my women young.

Women don't paint very well. It's a fact. There are, of course, exceptions. Agnes Martin or, from the past, Paula Modersohn-Becker.

We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.

George W. Bush will surely deserve that woolliest of all peace prizes, the Nobel.

It's nice to be nice to the nice.

In itself a thought, a slumbering thought is capable of years; and curdles a long life into one hour.

I don't run around shooting people. Much. I only shoot two people a year. Maybe.