You're never the same. You're degrading, or you're getting better. You don't stay the same.

Giving should be a part of your routine, just like working out, eating, and sleeping.

You don't get to celebrate yourself unless you risk being mocked or rejected. As an artist, you cannot play it safe. You just can't.

Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.

My biggest fear in life is to be average.

Is it possible that there are no coincidences?

When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.

I find it very eerie when somebody is being really polite.

There are scenes that were right on the edge, but I always try to err on non-indulgence. It's something that I'm very careful about, that I'm just leaning too hard into something.

Sometimes we do not do things that we wish to do, so others will not know that we wish to do them.

When you find your voice, your life takes on grace.

Faith is not so much something we believe

Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career.

But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness.

It's easier to force feed people than it is to give 'em what they want. It makes more money.

Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you.

All I want out of music is to think to myself, this could be in a makeover montage.

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

It's important to cultivate a tolerance and patience with uncomfortable feelings. It's best to feel them.

Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.

The vision and the faculty divine; Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse.