I love being a lawyer more than I like writing.

There is a lot of silence in watching somebody trying to remember things.

I always expose the apparatus. I show how the film was made. I acknowledge the filmmaker and the filmmaking.

I wanted my book to make people cry, but I feel like I'm the only person who my book is going to make cry, if they show me the sales numbers.

I'm better at being a lawyer than I am at being a writer.

I don't necessarily believe in the ideology of cinema verité. I think by the very fact that you have a camera there you are affecting the story and you are influencing it.

Sometimes you are ahead of people and sometimes people have blind spots. They can't see the world and they can't see what they do.

He announces that lately he keeps losing things. "Like your wife and child, " I want to say, but don´t. At fourty, I´ve learned not to say everything clever, not to score every point.

Life is abundance grace.

He was good and then really good and then bad and then really bad, but since he was good I got lost in the thought that I could fix it.

If you want to understand what I'm thinking further, come talk to me. It shouldn't be something that should be hidden. These conversations need to happen and can bring everybody closer.

The only way to win World War III is to prevent it.

Drunkenness is the very sepulcher Of man's wit and his discretion.

Keep doin' what you're doin', fall in love with what you're creating, and everything else will fall into place.

Someone with inborn talent isn't happy. It's those who have worked hard for someone precious to them and who can be hot-blooded that are happy." -Gai Sensei: Naruto Episode 196

I'm healthier in California, probably a little happier, maybe.

It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat.