People love conversation, and movies are conversations, and an audience has to participate; it has to fill in some blanks.

In a cement park across the street is this giant sculpture. It is a giant umbrella frame lying on its side. It's green. Stand under it, during a rainstorm, you'll still get wet - that's why it's art.

People are usually pretty hungry after a funeral. I guess it's because we all realize that time is running out and we better eat all we can. Please don't mention that to my mother.

I feel like there's a certain kind of laughter missing in the world.

I don't want to write my life. I live my life. I want to make up a new world.

I want to write stories that don't help you escape life, but embrace life.

There is nothing more depressing than toast that no one eats.

I spent so many years trying to become an actor, trying to be a person that I wasn't.

I want to make accessible movies for bright people, but I don't want to play games and be coy.

The bigger the budget, the less an audience is trusted, and that's the difference between a big-budget film and a small-budget film.

My job as a dramatist is to find out where these characters want to go, and make it as hard as possible for them to get there.

To grow up is to wonder about things

Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me.

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

Cease being intimidated by the argument that a right action is impossible because it does not yield maximum profits, or that a wrong action is to be condoned because it pays.

The more you know about your customers, the more you can provide to them information that is increasingly useful, relevant, and persuasive.

Smiling face is always beautiful even if it is hundred years old!

Yay!” Tyson went around the couches and gave everyone a big hug—even Octavian, who didn't look thrilled about it.

Liberty is never unalienable, it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes.

We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit.