We crash into each other just so we can feel something.

When we're threatened, it's very easy to appeal to our basic natures.

You'd be surprised how many writers, or how many actors, if they miss a paycheck or two, they've got nothing. As a writer or an actor you can have four or five jobs in one year and then have none for two years.

If you believe in someone enough, and you just don't stop believing in them, mo matter what, no matter how much they push you away, and no matter how often they prove they're only there to use you.

We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment.

Every 10 years, I know less about love and relationships. The smarter I get, the less I know.

Walk through Santa Monica and try to find somebody who knows a young man or woman who's in this war. Here, war is an intellectual concept. If you lose your son or daughter, it's no longer an intellectual matter.