You become so obsessed, and that's not a bad thing for a movie. Serve it with that sense that it's the whole world.

[Screenwriting] is no more complicated than old French torture chambers, I think. It's about as simple as that.

I took some time out for life.

I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy.

Things get very distorted when you do a movie, weirdly so.

I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy.

I value comedy. I value somebody who can be funny.

Kids in general make things fresh and alive and they have this great appreciation for, Holy mackerel, we're making a movie!

A lot of things just aren't true any more.

It never stops, accepting that fact is difficult. I took some time out for life.

I've done it with Broadcast News-where there was no finish line, there was no agenda that I had to move all the characters to this point, that I was sort of open to what happens.

Our imagination is dictated by who we are. (198)

Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits.

I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if thats what youd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other.

We must for dear life make our own counter-realities.

We could never know who we truly were until we heard the whispers of the stars.

He that will maintain that man's free will is able to do or work anything in spiritual cases, be they never so small, denies Christ.

I'm basically like, you know, learned pretty quickly the guy who throws the first punch usually wins, so when people gave me a hard time I just punched them.

I feel like male patriarchy generally has been about repressing female sexuality because it's "scary."

Truth will set you free. And Truth has a name.

I hold my peace, sir? no; No, I will speak as liberal as the north; Let heaven and men and devils, let them all, All, all, cry shame against me, yet I'll speak.