When you're in love, you're asking someone else to fulfill all your unfulfilled needs, to make you whole, and to make you feel good about everything, and no one can do that.

In a sea of stories, find the right one to tell, and the right way to tell it.

Your friends are really an extension of your vision of the world. It's kind of a physical manifestation of how you feel. Like your soul.

There are so many great artists, I think, who kind of suffer from being icons, legends, acknowledged masters.

I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles.

I have a lot of films that I haven't gotten made, and that continues to trouble me. But someday, some way or another, I think I will. It's all about timing. There's a moment when you're hot and studios will make your next film, and then there's a moment when you're really cold, and they couldn't care less what you want to do next. That's when you have to recede and make lower-budgeted films.

When you're trying to get laid, everything's great, but once you've been with someone eight years and the future is not finite, you have time to sit and really examine every little thing that irritates you.