I'm at the stage of life when if a girl says no to me I'm profoundly grateful to her.

You can't work at a relationship; you can't control it. You have to be lucky and go through your life. If you are not lucky you have to be prepared for some degree of suffering. That's why most relationships are very difficult and have some degree of pain. People stay together because of inertia, they don't have the energy. Because they are frightened of being lonely, or they have children.

Have you ever noticed that good people sleep better, but bad people seem to have more fun when they're awake?

In order to be successful, all you've got to do is show up 80 percent of the time.

The movie is usually, for me, something organic that grows all the time. I sit home and write it, and I'm in an isolated, four-walled environment, and I don't know what's going on. I just write it, and it's appearing in my head in some idealized way where every single moment works, and every little thing is perfect, because it's in my head.

See, I never gain an ounce, because, you know, my anxiety acts like aerobics.

I don't know enough to be incompetent.