As we know from our government, the more power you have, the more of a bureaucrat you are, and the more ego you have invested in being right, the greater the odds are that you will never change your opinion.

It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.

Hollywood has a way of sucking the world's talent to it.

The worst thing is that you used to be able to show interesting films on campuses. Those places are all gone.

I'd like to quit thinking of the present as some minor insignificant preamble to something else.

…[Thomas Wolfe] says that we are the sum of all the moments of our lives, and that, uh, anybody who sits down to write is gonna use the clay of their own life, that you can’t avoid that.

The idea is to remain in a state of constant departure, while always arriving.