When we're alive, life consumes us. But when we die, all of the color and the motion is gone so quickly, it's as though it can no longer stand to be wasted on us.

I think she's brave. I think that nobody has ever believed what she could be capable of. All her life, nobody was listening.

It taught that there are three versions of things: the one I see in my mind, and the one that carries onto the paper, and then what it ultimately becomes.

I see an ocean that’s spilled out of a wineglass, its body clear and sparkling and folding over itself. I see a ribbon of sand.

Vaughn is talking about the heat, and his voice is so excited that it breaks into whispers at times. He loves his madness the way a bird loves the sky.

There's a world out there that nobody has bothered to promise her.

She's been conned, ruined, left for dead, and she's not going to forgive any of it. She will soldier on, if only out of spite.

I think he's beginning to understand, and understanding is a horrible thing.

She’s a commodity in a sea of broken girls.

There is a silence so great that I can hear the ice crystals cracking and falling from eyelashes of girls who will never blink again.

Home?' I say. It's a word that can mean anywhere and nowhere.

Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything. Be brave enough to dare to be loved.

We don't believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.

It is said that our destiny is set, predetermined before conception. But I myself, have never been a believer…

You kind of invite a little spooky, creepy vibe into your whole experience of making a movie.

America betrays its friends. It sets them up and betrays them. I'd rather be America's enemy.

I don't think screenwriting is therapeutic. It's actually really, really hard for me. It's not an enjoyable process.

Freedom in a democracy is the glory of the state, and, therefore, in a democracy only will the freeman of nature deign to dwell.

I've learned not to look a gift horse in the mouth. Why you would want to look any horse the mouth considering how infrequently they brush is beyond me.

Experience is knowing a lot of things you shouldnt do.

Greatest scandal waits on greatest state.