I have a lot of women friends - I feel like I finally matured a little. But initially I was attracted to some of them. I liked everything they were a….

Normally my process is to sit in a room and read a script and talk about it and ask questions and just create a dialogue. That goes all the way throu….

When you're in love, you're asking someone else to fulfill all your unfulfilled needs, to make you whole, and to make you feel good about everything,….

As we know from our government, the more power you have, the more of a bureaucrat you are, and the more ego you have invested in being right, the gre….

If you establish rules and play by them, the audience will buy in..

People think drama drives story, but I think the comedy is really the heart and soul..

Memory is a wonderful thing if you don't have to deal with the past..

That's the history of art - you have to consider yourself fortunate if you ever get acknowledged. If you have a critical success that's also a financ….

As a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film..

I always think that I’m still this 13-year old boy that doesn’t really know how to be an adult, pretending to live my life, taking notes for when I’l….

All the women are going around saying, "Oh, we're just friends, we're just friends," but the guy's going, "Yeah, we're friends, but as soon as she br….

I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live….

Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint..

The idea is to remain in a state of constant departure, while always arriving..

In a sea of stories, find the right one to tell, and the right way to tell it..

There are a million ideas in a world of stories. Humans are storytelling animals. Everything's a story, everyone's got stories, we're perceiving stor….

Slackers might look like the left-behinds of society, but they are actually one step ahead, rejecting most of society and the social hierarchy before….

I can't help but think that at the end of your life, when you look back, there'll be a tone. And that tone will come from the essence of how you live….

Being alone is better than sitting next to a lover and feeling lonely..

The trick is to combine your waking rational abilities with the infinite possibilities of your dreams. Because, if you can do that, you can do anythi….

I believe if there's any kind of God it wouldn't be in any of us, not you or me but just this little space in between. If there's any kind of magic i….