Men make clothes for the women they'd like to be with or in most cases the women they'd like to be.

Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.

I never knew what I wanted, except that it was something I hadn't seen before.

[The Player is] not a truthful indictment of Hollywood. It's much uglier than I portrayed it, but nobody would've been interested if I'd shown just how sadistic, cruel and self-orientated it is.

Your own ego is the only trap that I think you can fall into.

I love fishing. You put that line in the water and you don't know what's on the other end. Your imagination is under there.

Chance is another name that we give to our mistakes. And all of the best things in my films are mistakes.

I don't think screenplay writing is the same as writing - I mean, I think it's blueprinting.

If you have a child who is seven feet tall, you don't cut off his head or his legs. You buy him a bigger bed and hope he plays basketball.

All of my films deal with the same thing: striving, socially and culturally, to stay alive.

What is an ending? There's no such thing. Death is the only ending.

I asked you here tonight because when you realise you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

The simple act of putting your truth on paper, only you and your thoughts, is one of the most powerful exercises you can do.

The whole duty of our existence is fear God.

Increasingly we confused the pursuit of happiness with the pursuit of pleasure.

The meaning of life is more than a definition of life.

It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.

Life is too short to not have oysters and champagne sometimes

There's something profoundly disturbing about watching an old guy eat a sandwich.

I live by the 80/20 rule: I'm 80 percent healthy, and then 20 percent indulgent.

The long morning shadows lay as still and dark as lakes and patterned the rough ground with straight margins.