Finally, Colin Farrell showed up on my doorstep, only he wasn't Colin Farrell - he was just this Irish kid who had read the script and wanted to do i….

You're dumber than you think I think you are..

The one thing you know when you're shooting a script - and I've been on a lot of sets - is space is in a script, and the distance between the page an….

People who can't think of anything else but whether the person you love is indented or convex should be doomed not to think of anything else but that….

The straight roads are the roads of progress, the crooked roads are thee roads of genius..

If you have a good ear for dialogue, you just can't help thinking about the way people talk. You're drawn to it. And the obsessive interest in it for….

And I think one way or another it's evident to those who work with me that as a writer, a director, a friend, as somebody's there that's very anxious….

Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough..

I think Los Angeles certainly grew out and grew up, but I don't think it matured. It lost the appeal and the hunger and the beauty of its adolescence….

I'm not in business to be loved, but I am in business..

Larry Grobel senses there are no answers in life, only questions. Good ones..

Black pride. Gay pride. White, Anglo-Saxon Protestant pride. All of these things, you know, they're polarized, aren't they? The red and blue states. ….

How much are you worth? I have no idea. How much do you want? Naw.I just want to know what you're worth. Over ten million? Oh, my, yes. Why are you d….

But time has caught up with it and I think vindicated it. Shampoo, too: very dark, very ambitious movie..

In dramatic writing, the very essence is character change. The character at the end is not the same as he was at the beginning. He's changed-psycholo….

It was not possible to film in California, because all the areas are heavily built up now. Coming to Cape Town is an invitation to step into the past….

Either you bring the water to L.A. or you bring L.A. to the water..

What makes screenplays difficult are the things that require the most discipline and care and are just not seen by most people. I'm talking about mov….

But, uh, censorship at that time said that you just absolutely couldn't do anything involving children and so we had to go from there. I don't rememb….

Relative to the power that movie stars have, and producers and directors, I would say that even the most respected screenwriters have very little pow….

I'm not supposed to be the one that's caught with his pants down..