Larry Grobel senses there are no answers in life, only questions. Good ones.

You're dumber than you think I think you are.

Finally, Colin Farrell showed up on my doorstep, only he wasn't Colin Farrell - he was just this Irish kid who had read the script and wanted to do it.

The straight roads are the roads of progress, the crooked roads are thee roads of genius.

What makes screenplays difficult are the things that require the most discipline and care and are just not seen by most people. I'm talking about movement - screenwriting is related to math and music, and if you zig here, you know you have to zag there. It's like the descriptions for a piece of music - you go fast or slow or with feeling. It's the same.

People who can't think of anything else but whether the person you love is indented or convex should be doomed not to think of anything else but that, and so miss the other ninety-five percent of life.

But time has caught up with it and I think vindicated it. Shampoo, too: very dark, very ambitious movie.