The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism.

How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.

To experience commitment as the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhood's limitless possibility, of the flattery of choice without duress-this will happen, mark me. Childhood's end.

The mother at thirty with face commencing to display the faint seams of the plan for the second face life had in store for her and which she feared would be her own mother’s

True tragedy may be defined as a dramatic work in which the outward failure of the principal personage is compensated for by the dignity and greatness of his character.

Women are tough, but sometimes women present toughness in different ways.

The rise and fall of Tony Montana, and what a way to go out.

If there are some people that like the film and some people that do not, that's fine for me, because I do not intend to make very broad films.

I need a release from whatever I'm writing.

This moment, we are right where we need to be, right where we are meant to be.

Favorable and unfavorable conditions are part of living but smiling through them all is the Art of Living.

I haven't changed. Something's happened to me, that's all.

Laws can't control the lawless.