I think audiences deserve the benefit of the doubt. I prefer to be surprised by them rather then just assume they'll react negatively to any new idea.

The closer you stay to emotional authenticity and people, character authenticity, the less you can go wrong. That's how I feel now, no matter what you're doing.

Anything you could ever want or be you already have and are.

The holy trifecta of directing and filmmaking is character emotion, camera movement and music. When you hit those three, that's magical. That's what I'm trying to do.

I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write.

There's nothing better than an actor who is really, really hungry to show everything they've got.

You know, veterans come home and they may not be bipolar, but after they've been through a war with PTSD or a head injury, their families have a handful when they come home.

That's just how I see things. I think things that are the most dramatic or tragic can also look the most ridiculous and funny. That's part of being human.

The idea that anyone would think their religious ideas make them morally superior is just preposterous.

The gift of life is the gift to suffer sometimes and to embrace it, heartbreak and all.

What do we have in life, really? If we're lucky we get to a certain age, and we have each other. We have the food we like. We have our crazy little rituals. And we have each other.

Do the small things with a great and a clean heart, even out of your least, and you never did a small thing at all, for the heart defines it all!

Mind with full of creative ideas and new thoughts, doesn't care what other will say or think.

Love should not be polluted with friendship.

The world I held so closely, she played me like a game, I released and left her laughing to stand on my own two feet.

You couldn’t leave words lying around where our enemies might find them.

1. “Being able to depend on a person’s integrity lays a solid foundation for a relationship built on trust, both in business and in life.

Most people just laugh when they hear that the secret to success is giving. Then again, most people are nowhere near as successful as they wish they were.

At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.

The real art of governing consists, so far as possible, in doing nothing.

In boxing, you never know who you're going to face in the ring.