The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince.

Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago, back in the stone age.

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.

I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.

Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.

Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem.

Privacy above all else. Some day, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was.

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.

Maybe that’s why God made childbirth so painful, so that when your life is wrecked by children you know it could be worse.

Karma: I know I've seen this man someplace before.Artie (as McGuffey): Considering some of the places I frequent lady that's a comprising remark!Wild Wild West TV Season 1Night of the Flaming Ghost

Sometimes even braves are incapable of handling situations.

Carbon is probably a bit harder to wrap since it's procedural.

The trick is to fix the problem you have, rather than the problem you want.

Leaders goal: Don't be afraid of vulnerability & transparency, (without being pitiful). People respond to authenticity.

The Galvins like to think about certain things that most people think are impossible, and then we like to engage a process to try to make them possible.

It is not enough ... simply to surrender oneself brainlessly to love, when it knocks at the door, one must also calculate because of later life, which does sometimes follow.

Ten, I thought, he's definitely a ten

Think small.... If you can't think small, try philosophy or social criticism.