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

Just because you are a character doesn't mean you have character.

In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.

When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'

Don't write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what's in your heart.

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

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

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

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 remember what I changed it to. Duvall is just excellent in it.

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

If you can find meaning in the type of running you need todo to stay on this team, chances are you can find meaning in another absurd pastime: Life.

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 it.

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

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

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

Good dialogue illuminates what people are not saying

I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.

My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.

I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.