Life doesn't care about your vision. You just gotta roll with it.

No one will laugh at how great things are for somebody.

The rule of thumb for a director or producer - which prevents them from just sticking their names on everything - is that you have to contribute substantially more than 50 percent of the character dialogue and story.

We tell our kids that policemen are good and God protects us and our country is noble, and at a certain point - and for some it comes quite early, five or six years old - we start to realize that it's all a facade.

I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work.

I never read Playboy before I started working there and stopped reading it the day I quit.

You can't love somebody into a state of mental health. A lot of people get into serious relationships thinking they're going to heal someone with their love and attention, but it doesn't usually work out that way.