If you put up posters around town for high-school kids, high-school kids will come. If you're casting politicians, you can't put up posters and have politicians come down.

Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.

I used to take photographs just to remember people.

For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad.

I was once a shameless, full-time dope fiend.

Now the music industry is sort of like a Craigslist venture, right? Where you're making your own records and selling them online.

I'm normally drawn to something I haven't done and seen before.

The area of teenage life is not necessarily rarefied; we've all gone through that period. It's not as rarefied as a western or a space adventure or a gangster film, but it has its own dynamic.

Sometimes getting upset with yourself is necessary when you face the truth.

Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.

I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything.

We must face all our fears and conquer each one of them.

It should be illegal to have such a hot little body as yours." —Bryce Van Der Linden Unbearable Passion (Book 1), Never Say Never

Jealousy had a taste, all right. A bitter and tongue-stinging flavor, like a peach pit.

I don't think being a lawyer is more or less valuable than being a writer.

I don't write my own songs. I don't have time.

Randomness scares people. Religion is a way to explain randomness.

Obedience to truth known, is the king's highway to that which is still beyond us.

Use him wisely. Few have been given such a weapon by the gods or Fates before.

The word advent means "expectation." What advent can do for us is create a sense of hope.

Happy are those who find wisdom... She is more precious than jewels, and nothing you desire can compare with her. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.