There's actually a big difference between story and character. A great story doesn't make a great movie. A great script, which defines its moments and characters can become a great movie. You can make a movie that makes a lot of money and it may or may not have great story or great characters.

Conventional wisdom can get us into so much trouble, especially as artists.

Broken people say awful things and do incredibly absurd things.

I will never forget what happened here tonight.people I went to school with will never forget.

I'm a big fan of dreams. Unfortunately, dreams are our first casualty in life - people seem to give them up, quicker than anything, for a 'reality.'

You have to pick the stories that you want to be involved with and the end game is you'd like to be a part of a hit. But I think your moral obligation is to follow your own heart.

If it's going to be wrecked, I want to make sure I wreck it.