As human beings, we are nothing but the stories we live and die by — so you’d better be careful what stories you tell yourself.

I don't think you can create effectively toward expectation. I'm not in the service business.

I didn't come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else's vision.

I read The Conspiracy Against the Human Race and found it incredibly powerful writing. For me as a reader, it was less impactful as philosophy than as one writers ultimate confessional: an absolute horror story, where the self is the monster.

We live in a culture that has a real hard time distinguishing fiction from reality. Even when they're told something is fiction.

As human beings, we are nothing but the stories we live and die by — so you’d better be careful what stories you tell yourself.

I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion.