I met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you - you're twenty minutes.

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.

You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.

If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.

Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.

I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.

If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.

No matter how much we try to keep things in order, life seems determined to scatter Legos under our bare feet.

The boundary between good and evil are clearer for more common folks but gets blurred more and more as people get more power over their fellows.

I didn't know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for 'em...

Gold, or at least the prospect of it, saved him, then killed him.

what we call things matters. ... The words we use, and how we perceive those words, reflect how we value, or devalue, people, places, and things.

I was working at eBay, so I would just troll the vintage categories, find old amps and what have you. I was buying a fair amount of stuff and playing with it and then selling it back.

There is a child in all of us, a person who believes in a glorious future.

I never lost a tennis match, I just ran out of time

I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth.

I figure as an artist the best thing you can do is follow your heart - and if your heart is marketable, then you win.