I try to approach making movies in a way that it's about the making of them and not the result of them, if that makes sense.

A man's main job is to protect his woman from her desire to 'get bangs' every other month.

Success is just a war of attrition. Sure, there's an element of talent you should probably possess, but if you stick around long enough, eventually something is going to happen.

I've had plenty of good times and have settled peacefully into quite a boring existence that I love. I had enough fireworks and chaos. It is a blissful boring life, believe me.

When I look at her, it's like when I was in seventh grade and fell in love for the first time, where it's debilitating. That's available 24/7 if I want, which is amazing.

People only attack when they see weakness or when they think that someone is ashamed of it or embarrassed and they can't wait to stick it to 'em.

I think a lot of ex-addicts. They find a lot of humor in what they did because they lived through it.

You only get one chance at your life so why not jump cars?

I think all males from Detroit have an obsession with cars.

The passion for truth is silenced by answers which have the weight of undisputed authority.

I don't want people to see me fall. I mean, I got enough people cheering for me to fall now... The Internet has created some amazing place for evil to exist, you dig?

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

The idea that a child doesn't have the opportunity to be a child is devastating.

Some beautiful things are more dazzling when they are still imperfect than when they have been too perfectly crafted.

The beauty of things must be that they end.

How can you not have fun going around the country playing baseball for a living? Being a baseball player is the next best thing to being a rock star.

Our militant union with peoples which still have to carry on an armed struggle against the colonialists constitutes an important element of our line in international affairs.

New Testament Christians witnessed — not because they had to — but because they could not help it.

The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]