There are too many good comic book writers out there. I'd rather remain a fanboy.

Quentin [Tarantino] is a filmmaker who really dives into things very seriously and deeply. And when he does interviews, he really wears his heart on his sleeve and he doesn't hold anything back.

You've got to trust [that] your own compass will lead you away from whatever mistakes were made.

I'm Jewish, so I don't know much about Easter eggs.

All I can say is, death is a part of life.

I just want to keep learning.

Nothing lives up to what you imagine. It changes, shifts, becomes something else.

I felt film is art and there are people that constructed that art - and that made me want to be a filmmaker.

Make movies you love because it's miserable. Every movie I've worked on at one point or another is exhausting, and you feel like you're making a bad movie.

Every movie has its complexities and its challenges.

Last thing you want to do with a good movie is hold the audience hostage. As an entertainer myself, I just know it's better when you leave 'em wanting more than to stick around too long.

Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most.

Her voice had suddenly jumped a couple of social classes to underline her ownership status.

Well, it's very easy for me to gain weight, but even though I tried not eating for a week when I was really young, I couldn't do it any longer because I liked my food too much.

Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.

The family is the country of the heart.

Teens in the '90s had the same basic desires as they do now.

In all earlier civilizations, it should be remembered, commerce was treated as a narrow activity and by no means the senior sector in society.

It makes sense that the placenta almost looks like a tree with many branches - a tree of life.

Everything's happened to me. Nothing can happen to me now.

Scientific method is the way to truth, but it affords, even in principle, no unique definition of truth. Any so-called pragmatic definition of truth is doomed to failure equally.