Take off all your clothes and walk down the street waving a machete and firing an Uzi, and terrified citizens will phone the police and report, There's a naked person outside!

I came to love silence, because it's so rare, and it's now my favorite aural condition.

It's the hardest thing on earth to like yourself, and then when you do, it's a catastrophe. I mean, the people I know who like themselves - I don't want to see them!

There's nothing in the American dream about character. It's a serious flaw.

I love the editing process of making movies. I just wish that life had one.

Being with an insanely jealous person is like being in the room with a dead mammoth.

The only safe thing in filmmaking is to take a chance.