I want to make a film about a factory worker..

I do find myself at the moment, due to the success of School of Rock, to be on people's radar a little..

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

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

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….

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….

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….

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….

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….

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….

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….

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

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….

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

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….

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

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

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

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,….

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