Regret isn't going to get me anywhere. It's like being obsessed with something. It doesn't bring you anywhere.

Nothing is as dangerous as a sure thing.

Here's to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it's caused me.

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.

I've got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists. Neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are.

I love editing. I think I like it more than any other phase of film making. If I wanted to be frivolous, I might say that everything that precedes editing is merely a way of producing film to edit.