Make the movie your way. Surround yourself with people who know more than you.

I liked to think I had written 'scripts' when I was in high school, but looking back at them, they were about thirty pages of wannabe-Mamet dialogue with a staple through them.

The best thing you can give me is your time. The easiest way to get me angry is to waste my time.

Actors want to work. Give them characters they want to play, or a story they want to tell, and hopefully the budget will follow.

For me, modern technology has ruined romance and movies - nobody can run to the airplane gate anymore.

I escaped to New York, and then L.A., but when I dream of home, I still dream of my old house in Holmdel.

We didn't miss it. This is it. C'mon. You wanna go home?

Routine is part of coping.

What do they call it, Y.O.L.A., you only live once? I think people are sort of gravitating towards that.

I think when you take forever off the table, it does something really interesting to what you think is important.

I'm from Jersey, so I have a love of T.G.I. Friday's and chain restaurants in general. When you go to a Friday's, it seems like everyone's on ecstasy and way too happy anyway.

Truth, independent of the Self, is irrelevant to the biological existence of human life.

Out here you need to live in the moments. Watch the world. You're a young man, Jal, a child who's refused to grow up. Do it now, or you'll die a young man.

...if you ask me whether or not I'm an atheist, I wouldn't even answer. I would first want an explanation of what it is that I'm supposed not to believe in, and I've never seen an explanation.

It's always better to have too much to read than not enough.

A person with increasing knowledge and sensory education may derive infinite enjoyment from wine.

Every man has a paradise around him till he sins, and the angel of an accusing conscience drives him from his Eden.

I definitely am a Twihard!

No one, though has to go to college to make or understand or enjoy art. Wonderful artists and critics - some of the best - have educated themselves.

Many shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one's around to observe them.