My students tell me, we don't want to love! We're tired of being loving! And I say to them, if you're tired of being loving, then you haven't really ….

Think very carefully about what you want in life. Reckon with the risks..

A face at the window, a tap on the pane, who is it that wants me tonight in the rain?.

You don't have to be anyone special to achieve something big. You just have to want to do it..

No one wants my painting because it is different from other people's peculiar, crazy public that demands the greatest possible degree of originality ….

I just want my children to be happy. I want my children to be healthy..

You always want your kids to step up at the moment of truth..

It's rare that a good writer will sit down and write a good script. Writers are greedy too, and they don't want to work without getting paid. But qua….

If I do eat meat, it's got to be ethical. I want to know that it lived a great life before it was killed humanely..

I just adore being on set. I adore storytelling. I can be on a set 70 hours a week and on those weekends, I'll still want to watch movies..

If you want to make god laugh, make a plan..

What I do is create a lens through my work that corrects my readers' cognitive dissonance and says: you will see all of it - not what you want or wha….

If you want to enter a state of grace, question the assumption you’re defending right now..

Think big. Make a plan and stick to it, and you can do anything you want to do..

I'm not really a guy who wants to be a director, anyway..

I never fronted, you can get it if you want it... Won't say I'm the best, but I'm not that far from it..

Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought.

I don't want to be an old dad..

I always like to say that no matter what you want to do in life, if you stick with it, you're bound to eventually get good at it!.

My guess is that liberating the fossil fuel industry to frack anywhere they want will drive down the rate at which we're converting to sun and wind. ….

I want everybody who is watching to come to the Academy Awards with us. I'm going to pay for the bus..