I'm aware that a film is different than a play, and that a film isn't going to be the filmed record of the play. It's its own separate entity, and I've come to peace with that.

We're all just people, some of us accidentally connected by genetics, a random selection of cells. Nothing more.

The window shades have all been removed. Nighttime is now free to encroach.

Divorce is an embarrassing public admission of defeat.

What they frequently want to do with a movie is, they want to cut out the valleys and just show the peaks. And valleys are important; the valleys make the peaks stand out.

I never know what the hell I'm writing about, I never know what the next thing I'm writing about is, I never have a plan.

Listen to me: die after me, all right? I don't care what else you do, where you go, how you screw up your life, just... survive. Outlive me, please.