When I was a kid, I loved horror films. I used to stay up on Saturday night to watch.

Nobody feels like an adult. It's the world's dirty secret.

The main thing on film is you want to be innocent to the moment.

Without social identity, there is, in fact, no society.

When there is tension, arguments and money problems, it's tough to do your work. Some people thrive on that. I don't.

There's nothing like walking onto a Hollywood sound stage.

I don't watch the dailies. You want to just turn in your resignation when you watch the dailies.

Any time you die in a film, it's not real, so it's all kind of fun.

A Western would be good. I'd love to do a Western.

Life is too god damn short and you can't waste a minute of it.

But I loved making Eat Pray Love, and I loved working with Julia Roberts.

I hated labels anyway. People didn't fit in slots--prostitute, housewife, saint--like sorting the mail. We were so mutable, fluid with fear and desire, ideals and angles, changeable as water.

A culture of vultures steeped and born of violence shall choke on the blood of its offspring.

There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.

The human condition: lost in thought.

Florida is a crazy place, and I have played some of the wildest shows of my life here.

Grace... expresses two complementary thoughts: God's unmerited favor to us through Christ, and God's divine assistance to us through the Holy Spirit.

There's two heads to every coin.

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

I was just another long-haired teenage kid with visions of grandeur, strumming a tennis racket or a broom in front of his bedroom mirror.

In every generation, the world is changed by a few people, who stand for something, do not fear unpopularity and dare to make a difference.