Why do I always feel like you're trying to staple my umbilical cord to the corner of your desk?

And every good artist knows that the gift comes from somewhere else, and it's there for a reason, and that's to make the world a better place.

There is no higher form of artistic expression then film

My experience has been that people who die for causes have few friends in death.

Neither our own passing nor the passing of an era is a tragedy, no matter how much we would like to think it is.

The real gladiators of the world are so humble in their origins and unremarkable in appearance that when we stand next to them in a grocery-store line, we never guess how brightly their souls can burn in the dark.

There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself.