Educate yourself, welcome life's messiness, read Chekhov, avoid becoming an architect at all costs.

Everything of mine which has been filmed so far has been one character short, and that character is me.

The only proof he needed for the existance of God was music.

The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybody. Thank you for using me, even though I didn't want to be used by anybody.

You know, the Emancipation Proclamation was like giving freedom to domestic animals.

We have such a young culture that there is an opportunity to contribute wonderful new myths to it, which will be accepted.

The highest possible form of treason is to say that Americans aren’t loved wherever they go, whatever they do.