It's my experience that endings are never easy, and I think I'm not alone among filmmakers or writers in this.

The closer you stay to emotional authenticity and people, character authenticity, the less you can go wrong. That's how I feel now, no matter what you're doing.

Anything you could ever want or be you already have and are.

The holy trifecta of directing and filmmaking is character emotion, camera movement and music. When you hit those three, that's magical. That's what I'm trying to do.

I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write.

There's nothing better than an actor who is really, really hungry to show everything they've got.

You know, veterans come home and they may not be bipolar, but after they've been through a war with PTSD or a head injury, their families have a handful when they come home.

That's just how I see things. I think things that are the most dramatic or tragic can also look the most ridiculous and funny. That's part of being human.

The idea that anyone would think their religious ideas make them morally superior is just preposterous.

The gift of life is the gift to suffer sometimes and to embrace it, heartbreak and all.

What do we have in life, really? If we're lucky we get to a certain age, and we have each other. We have the food we like. We have our crazy little rituals. And we have each other.

Anger is so easy to get into and so hard to get out of.

What cannot be altered must be borne not blamed.

People who are sick, or who have been sick, or have come close to death have a lot to say - and they want you to hear it.

The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.

To most teenagers, life is a strange uncharted land filled with a mixture of new joys, intensely felt, and painful confusions for which they know no anodyne.

The doors of Opportunity are marked 'Push' and 'Pull'.

If you would get a contented life, do not grasp too much of the world, do not take in more of the business of the world than God calls you to.

We always have a good time playing, and I'm glad it shows.

Other people do not owe me their availability.

You can't see the forest for the trees.