In New York, you can bump into someone on the street and go to a thing, go get coffee real quick.

Fame is something I think happens as a result of trying to do good work. If you're trying to be famous, your work usually suffers.

I love New York. It's kind of perfect. I'm in New York part of the time and in L.A. part of the time. That's always been a goal, to be bicoastal in a real way.

I think we need to tell stories that reflect our world.

I did Chekhov's Three Sisters once. Two months in, I remember going, "Human beings shouldn't be forced to do or watch this play every night." It's so dark and so bottomless.

Normally when you're promoting something a lot, sometimes you get tired.

Though there is something cruel about being in Hawaii and you have a computer in front of you the whole time.

I always go to bed thinking I'm the luckiest guy in the world.

There's a logic to dreams that doesn't necessarily follow linear narrative. You don't know why things happen, it's your subconscious pushing you, to give you information.

Unless you hit your television with a sledgehammer, you're not going to be able to be an individual.

I've always been pretty happy with my style. I've been wearing tapered jeans since 1980 something.

I think she is confused by the way I want her, which is like nobody else. I know this deep down. I want her in a new way, a way she's never been told about.

To burn the ideal of a great love into the soul of youth in letters of fire - that is to give him a real moral strength.

About weak points [of the Origin] I agree. The eye to this day gives me a cold shudder, but when I think of the fine known gradations, my reason tells me I ought to conquer the cold shudder.

You can kill a revolutionary but you can't kill revolution...you can jail a liberator but you can't jail liberation.

Today's cinema is a global art form, it is impossible to make movies for a market the size of France, representing no more than 4% of the world's total.

I want to go out there and do some different things that people are like, "Wow. That's crazy. Why didn't I think of that?"

I am talking about being optimistic enough to sow some seeds in the hope that some of them will germinate and grow into flowers.

The best traders I know are also the most humble people I know, coincidence? Or has the market taught them some very valuable lessons?

Appropriate action means to advance your own goals, without unintentional harm to anyone else.