Making a movie is like a chess game. It's about constantly changing patterns, adapting to new things. It's not just black and white, as you know.

In this life, it's not what you hope for, it's not what you deserve - it's what you take!

The thing about film-making is I give it everything, that's why I work so hard. I always tell young actors to take charge. It's not that hard. Sign your own cheques, be responsible.

When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you're either going to sink or you're going to swim.

Psychiatry is a pseudoscience.... You don't know the history of psychiatry. I do...Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, you don't even -you're glib. You don't even know what Ritalin is.

I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I'm going to do something, I go all the way.

No dream is ever just a dream.

Someday. That's a dangerous word. It's really just a code for 'never'.

Perception and reality are two different things.

I had to train myself to focus my attention. I became very visual and learned how to create mental images in order to comprehend what I read.

I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning.

Test everything that can be tested. As soon as you think you know something, that's when you stop questioning it. Understanding kills curiosity. Understanding kills progress.

I like walking in the solitary dark street than the crowded shining street.

I knew that I had to find my own voice, both figuratively and literally.

A security system is only as secure as its secret. Beware of pseudo-secrets.

It is simply service that measures success.

President James Garfield could write in Latin with one hand while writing in Greek with the other. I would give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

I just hope and pray I can die with my boots on.

I think social media is a great place to share ideas and to connect with other people.

You can't want to be a writer. You have to be one.

Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted.