People never change because they are under threat or under duress. Never. They change because they see something that makes their life seem valuable enough to start moving toward a life worth living.

The higher the stakes, the happier I am, the better I will be.

There's somewhere you're supposed to go, and if you get quiet enough, you'll make it.

I think paranoia goes from generation to generation. It's convenient to imagine that there's a few people controlling everything, that way it's manageable and small. But that's not life, life is messy.

But I think Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang really got that thing where, if a movie reads really funny and then has some dramatic or violent or sinister stuff in it, you can't forget that primarily it has to be even funnier than you read it or that other stuff doesn't work.

Listen, smile, agree, then do whatever you were going to do anyway.

The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.