I can't help but think that at the end of your life, when you look back, there'll be a tone. And that tone will come from the essence of how you live your day to day what you did in that between time because that is really your life.

Being alone is better than sitting next to a lover and feeling lonely.

We all give ourselves a lot of leeway, but we want consistency from other people.

Whatever story you want to tell, tell it at the right size.

…[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.

It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.

I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists.