The harder you had to work to open a package, the less you ended up caring about what was inside.

I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.

It's dialogue that gives your cast their voices, and is crucial in defining their characters.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

You could start at a path leading nowhere more fantastic than from your own front steps to the sidewalk, and from there you could go… well, anywhere at all.

The movies have never been a big deal to me. The movies are the movies. They just make them. If they're good, that's terrific. If they're not, they're not. But I see them as a lesser medium than fiction, than literature, and a more ephemeral medium.

How to Draw a Picture (XII) Know when you're finished, and when you are, put your pencil or your paintbrush down. All the rest is only life.