There are very few movies in English about romantic obsession told with a seriousness of purpose.

The audience cares what the movie looks like, not about the sleepless night you had worrying about the thing getting developed.

You should just write the movie based on people you actually know and then just see who wants to play it. Cast the net.

If we continue as we have for the past 20 years in California, in the year 2020, everybody in the State will either be in prison or running one.

Life affirming doesn't mean good things happen.

Actors want to work with you but they want you to do their thing. Actors, whom I love with a blind partiality, sometimes they want to be soloists in the symphony, not a part of the orchestra.

The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable.

I don't envy the job of people who have to watch five movies a day - that's insane.

The conventional wisdom is that people come to the United States, and immigration is so great, and they say, 'America, what a great country.' And a lot of that is true.

Americans have always been excellent at making romantic comedies - but dramatically, we don't really try to do it.

The state of being in love is so inherently preposterous. It usually lends itself to romantic comedy. I think we've all been there.

Mean people are meaningless.

But—I’m leaving.”Not without me.

Reading/writing is a chance to live a different life in a different world.

Curiosity is my natural state and has led me headlong into every worthwhile experience (never mind the others) I have ever had.

There is nothing more dangerous than a shallow thinking compassionate person

We don't pay judges to think; we pay judges to rule on the law.

As long as you are held within a pattern you must create disorder in the world.

There are faults which show heart and win hearts, while the virtue in which there is no love, repels.

I want to reach absolute perfection. And I think I can reach it.

Talent is a valued tormentor.