When you've got good actors, they're going to come up with good stuff, but you're never quite sure how the dynamics are going to work between them.

If you've got time to waste, you might as well waste it listening to people.

Though it may not seem like it, I never try to write about a place, per se; it's always, first and last, about story. Story is everything. Story and a bit of attitude.

It isn't about being or not being dead, it's about what you leave behind

I hope there's some kind of morality in all my work.

It's the periods and the commas that you have to forget about. The words never change, but the intonations change.

'Pulp Fiction' is an amazing film, and I haven't made one nearly as good.

I realize that I am never going to grow up.

I won't work on anyone's else's script. I won't write for anyone else. I write my own stuff and make that when the time is right.

When I'm happiest writing is just not knowing where it goes and just let the characters bring you there.

I never really tell anyone what I'm writing beforehand because I usually don't know what it will be.

The only man meant to be in your life is a man that knows your worth.

The wisest has nothing, knows nothing, but loves everything.

You can always get someone to do your thinking for you.

Quit worrying about people that are trying to hold you back. God knows how to move the wrong people out of your life and bring the right people in. He knows how to prepare you to Break Out.

Everything in my career is my decision - every picture, every outfit. You get one chance at this, and I never saw myself as being a puppet.

I don't have that much experience in the studio, but I'm always really uncomfortable when I'm there. You're on the clock and it costs a lot of money.

I feel like there is this resurgence of amazing roles for women. It's because TV is so good - there are amazing parts for women on TV, and it's upped the game in movies.

O Sultan, my master, if my clothes are ripped and torn it is because your dogs with claws are allowed to tear me.

Personal space refers to an area with invisible boundaries surrounding a person's body into which intruders may not come.

There is but one bond of peace that is both permanent and enriching: The increasing knowledge of the world in which experiment occurs.