What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one's wrists?

I could stay living in this city if they just installed Blaupunkts in the cabs.

Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.

I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn't thinking about them being movies.

Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment.

Rock 'n' roll. Deal with it.

You really write the books you want to write. You can't take into consideration anything that anybody has said about you in the past, or what they'll say about you in the future.