I'm a natural novelist. I'm interested in the person and the group, and how they mesh. And one of the ways I don't want them to mesh is for the perso….

Anybody who wants to rule a group will find that if this group is quarreling among themselves they leave you alone..

Nobody wants to hear about process. They want to hear about results. They want to be inspired. They want to aspire to something. And so often in our ….

Obviously, you have to be lucky enough for people to want you to be in films, but that is the plan, definitely..

I'm a big believer that life changes as much as you want it to..

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 ….

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

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..