I want to take you away from this," I say, motioning around the kitchen, spastic. "From sushi and elves and... STUFF.

We buy balloons, we let them go.

I have to return some videotapes

The better you look, the more you see.

Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.

No one ever likes the right person.

Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?

But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.

I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.

And as the elevator descents, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even father down, I realize that the money doesn't matter. That all that does is that I want to see the worst

Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy

My world is a million shattered pieces put together, glued by my tears, where each piece is nothing but a reflection of YOU.

I never wore a single fedora filming L.A. Noire. It took about an hour and a half to do the hair - it was a very precise process.

I was very similar at 19. I wanted something to happen in life, I wanted a bit more. I wanted to find someone who could challenge my ideas. So I definitely tapped into that.

Luke moved as silently as fog, while Maryse's heels sounded like gunshots on the marble floor. Clary wondered if Isabelle's propensity for unsuitable footwear was genetic.

There's so much music in Austin, and it's all so different.

The main thing is winning. Stats aren't that important, but I think in the end things will work themselves out.

When I started making movies about weird people, I knew they were weird, I was infected with irony, and I wanted New York to notice.

It ain't where you're from, it's where you're at.