Theatrical success is predominantly two variables: who the distributor is and how much money they spend.

The meaning of life is to create meaning for your life.

No one has probably helped me more with my narcissism than my dog.

You can't fill your emails with crap, at least not with my friends, because they're brutal. If something sucks, they'll tell you.

I was stupid when I was 17 or 18. My thought process was that I thought that I was legitimately a hyper-genius, and so I wanted to go to the hardest academic school I could to see if I was really as smart as I thought I was.

Calling one thing 'literature' and another 'fiction' is a way to create status where there is none.

Hollywood, it's just like high school. Whoever is pretty and popular, everyone wants to be with.