Unhappy endings can be as cheap as happy endings.

If you just work on your craft hard, that's your only hope of doing anything worthwhile.

Bush was in a shithole on September 10th. 9/11 was the best thing that ever happened to him.

The closer you stay to emotional authenticity and people, character authenticity, the less you can go wrong. That's how I feel now, no matter what you're doing.

The gift of life is the gift to suffer sometimes and to embrace it, heartbreak and all.

I had various jobs, I taught a SAT class, I was a bartender, I had a day job at an office and was making short films. I got grants from NYSCA and NEA for an idea, which later became 'Huckabees,' about a guy in a Chinese restaurant who had microphones on every table and heard every personal conversation and would write perversely personal fortunes.

I think film was my passion without it being declared like a job that I could have, or a career that I could have.