Sometimes the wheel turns slowly, but it turns.

I don’t tweet for a very simple reason, which is that I drink.

If you look around the room, and you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.

Some people, their whole lives, are just injustice collectors. They’re going to find new injustices every day. That’s what they do, and that’s what they are.

The only way you can really deal with creative people is with very loose reins.

A guy comes home from college to find his mother sleeping with his uncle, and there's a ghost running around. Write it good, it's Hamlet; write it bad, it's Gilligan's Island.

People go to the zoo and they like the lion because it's scary. And the bear because it's intense, but the monkey makes people laugh.

Fatigue is your friend. Through exhaustion and through people just being so depleted, the stuff around the nerve endings gets worn away and other things begin to emerge and you take way bigger risks.

One of the nice things about being busy is it makes you focus on what's important to you and how you use your time.

To me there's no creativity without boundaries. If you're gonna write a sonnet, it's 14 lines, so it's solving the problem within the container.

One advantage of getting older is knowing when to worry.

Sometimes poetry is a way of finding beauty in the chaos

The idea that other perspectives exist may not be obvious to those who are in an emotional state of mind.

We refused to be what the world want us to be- BAD. We are what we are- GOOD. And that's the way it is going to be.

You know, often films that are deemed positive, nobody wants to see them.

I think play must have been invented so we wouldn't go mad thinking about certain things.

The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever.

Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen sat one morning in the window-bay of their father's house in Beldover, working and talking.

A breakup is like a broken mirror . It is better to leave it alone than hurt yourself trying to fix it .

When ideas lead to ideology, that's a very dangerous thing. Ideology then leads to creating the image of an enemy, and it leads to the murder and massacre.

You don't make movies about "men" and "women." You make movies about this guy and this woman and if you get them right, you'll automatically connect with a lot of people.