Appear as you are, or be as you appear..

Death is never very pretty..

You have to live a life to become a writer..

Movies are about escape..

Friendship neither finds nor makes equals..

I do not sing politics. I merely sing the truth..

How can I dispose of myself with it?.

Semper Dowland semper dolens..

To do it nationally or internationally, you have to follow a few more rules..

Power is intoxicating..

Politics is who gets what, when, how..

We read to find ourselves, more fully and more strangely than otherwise we could hope to find..

I always say, what really makes a movie commercial is that it makes its money back..

This is how it is now. This is my life..

Never take a picture of anything you are not passionately interested in..

Knowledge comes from learning. Wisdom comes from living..

Let yourself become living poetry..

Is there life in other families?.

You have to create something from nothing..

You are not a success until you start changing other lives permanently..

A lot of these movies are informed by the movies that come before them..