It's the hardest thing on earth to like yourself, and then when you do, it's a catastrophe. I mean, the people I know who like themselves - I don't want to see them!

There’s nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you’re meant to do. It’s like falling in love.

I love to take actors to a place where they open a vein. That’s the job. The key is that I make it safe for them to open the vein.

Any good movie is filled with secrets.

There's nothing in the American dream about character. It's a serious flaw.

A movie is like a person. Either you trust it or you don't.

The unconscious is our best collaborator.

Being with an insanely jealous person is like being in the room with a dead mammoth.

I was just trying to make a nice little movie... It wasn't until I saw it all put together that I realized this was something remarkable.

I love the editing process of making movies. I just wish that life had one.

I have never understood people dividing things into dramas and comedies.

My brain as the engine, with thoughts trailing to the caboose, on a one-track mind we keep going forward.

I'm sure you have drawers overflowing with panties the ladies throw at the stage. We saw you guys play down at Mon Brewing a few times. Way to keep the Nineties alive.

There cannot be any communication except through form. If there is no form, you cannot create emotion in the spectator.

In the face of adversity, hope often comes in the form of a friend who reaches out to us.

Hallucinations and illusions are not facts useful for scientific investigation.

Prose is like hair; it shines with combing.

Now if I seem to be afraidTo live the life that I have made in songWell it's just that I've been losing so long.

Sooner or later you'll hear what your heart has always been telling you: stop trying to be who you think you should be - become who you are.

[Democrat Party] believe that there's gonna be mass appreciation and love and everybody's gonna be getting along.

life is like a jigsaw puzzle, you have to see the whole picture, then put it together piece by piece!