When I was a screenwriter, I was doing it for mercenary reasons.

I think God is something that people use to avoid reality. I think faith allows people to reject what is right in front of our eyes, which is that thing, this life, this existence, this consciousness, or whatever word you want to use for it, is all we have, and all we'll ever have. I think people have faith because they want and need to believe in something, whatever that something is, because life can be hard and depressing and brutal if you don't.

And even though people try to pretend that pain doesn't do anything to them, none of us can really handle it. Everything bad we do in our life is because of pain of some kind.

She feels and she cries. It is to be admired.

I always wanted to be the outlaw. And that's to a certain extent how I've lived.

I am aware that the battle I am fighting is a petty one, but I am also aware that in order to win that which is great, you must first win that which is small.

Dreams can come true there [Los Angeles]in ways impossible anywhere else, and they can get destroyed as well.