I always have to presume that each movie is my last movie because I never know if I'll get money again.

A palindrome is a word or pattern that instead of developing in different directions it folds in on itself so that the beginning and end mirror each other, that they are the same.

We say we embrace humanity, but what does that mean? We are all defined by our limits, so to what extent can we embrace all this? Because we all contain within ourselves equally the capacity for kindness, as much as for cruelty or evil. And the best of us are able to suppress those baser impulses, instincts. That's the war within.

Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge.

I always make mistakes and I always fix things up, as best I can, in the cutting room.

What makes me angry is the idea that people would be going to a movie because of what I said about it. It makes me feel, I don't know, arrogant, self-important, self-aggrandizing, whatever. Like I'm being used.

The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence.