Eighty percent of success is showing up.

I'm really a timid person - I was beaten up by Quakers

A man that has never lied to a woman has no respect for her feelings.

I am not afraid of death. I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Standing in a garage no more makes you a car than standing in a church makes you a Christian.

Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem.

Some drink deeply from the river of knowledge. Others only gargle.

In my next life I want to live backwards. Start out dead and finish off as an orgasm.

I'm giving [my analyst] one more year--then I'm going to Lourdes.

I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.

I don't think screenwriting is therapeutic. It's actually really, really hard for me. It's not an enjoyable process.

I choose to write characters from the inside because I feel like that's the way I'm gonna get the most honest version of them.

There are things that aren't represented in movies that are a big part of everyone's life. This is a movie about health and about the body.

I think that people create the world that they live in. Your existence is very subjective, and you tell stories and organize the world outside of you into these stories to help you understand it.

I try to present something that is true so I don't further destroy the world with my contribution to it.

Meet me in Montauk.

Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.

There are so many people who are making movies now who can’t get any kind of distribution, so the market seems like it’s flooded.

If you ever got me, you wouldn't have a clue what to do with me.