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.
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
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.
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.
I really don't have any solutions and I don't like movies that do.
I do like escapism. I like going to the movies on a Friday night and seeing something fun.
I want to create situations that give people something to think about.
I do have, at different times, a certain kind of self-consciousness in the world, an insecurity.
I do a lot of things intuitively. I'm not often consciously aware of what I'm doing. It's like in a dream: There's something going on that's powerful but you don't know exactly why.