It feels good to finally stand on top of vanquished sloth, and actually impress some people as a hard worker.

I was completely broke, so I started saying yes to everything. I said yes to a woman who approached me about shooting the Dracula ballet, even though I felt like I was probably going to sabotage it.

I'm starting to frighten myself, because I'm backsliding into my devil-may-care attitude. I'm sure it's going to catch up with me.

I've never made movies to reach millions of people.

I literally designed and built the sets myself, and I kind of liked it. I always gave myself eight weeks to do that - sometimes even 10 - and the shooting took five or six weeks.

I've been so lazy all my life. I used to literally lie on the couch, up until the age of 35, fearing that my bones were dissolving like sugar cubes, from disuse.

Those are my goals, you know. To be smart, tasteless, and feeling. Something to shoot for.

If I want to keep making films for a few more years, I probably should be willing to adapt. I've sort of evolved into the filmmaker that I am because of natural selection anyway.

Shredded feelings are the fuel that feed the machinery of melodrama. And good melodrama just has honest feelings and is honest about the way people interact.

In many relationships that I've had people just try to own the other person.

You get to have some mischief before you're basically a blackened banana, impotent, and nothing to be afraid of.

Maddie swallowed hard and tried to channel… which actress? Damn, she couldn’t think of anactress to save her life! She was on her own.

You cannot have democracy without the institutions. You cannot have a democracy that is built on the moods of self-interested people.

I come from a part of New York that was almost entirely immigrants. I was born in America, but all of my friends' parents, everybody's parents, including my own, had come to America from Europe.

I'm happy to be making my first appearance on air professionally. By that I mean I'm finally getting paid, which I know will be a great relief to my creditors.

Look at your own poverty welcome it cherish it don't be afraid share your death because thus you will share your love and your life

Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.

We shall go down in history as the greatest statesmen of all time,or as the greatest criminals

In nature, a child finds freedom, fantasy, and privacy: a place distant from the adult world, a separate peace.

In the battle of faith, money is usually the last stronghold to fall.

So small as to be negligible. It's strange, but there's something in that thought that makes me feel almost...free.