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

Robert Towne

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.

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

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.

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.

Well, nobody's perfect.

It was a hot afternoon and I can still remember the smell of honeysuckle all along the street. How can I have known that murder can sometimes smell like honeysuckle?