“I don’t think there’s anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards – in the life of an artist.”

If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.

I don’t believe in putting in music as a band aid to get you over some rough parts or bad film making. If it’s there it’s got to add to it or take it to another level.

Particularly as a writer, it is my job to ignore social critics, or the response that social critics might have when it comes to the opinions of my characters, the way they talk, or anything that can happen to them.

If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.

I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can’t ever remember a time when I didn’t.

It’s nice to get invited to the parties and to be able to hobnob and celebrate a job well done with your colleagues.

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

My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I’ll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.

As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are.

Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.

As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I’m severed.

Movies are not about the weekend that they’re released, and in the grand scheme of things, that’s probably the most unimportant time of a film’s life.

I don’t believe in elitism. I don’t think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.

Just because I was at an anti-police brutality protest, doesn’t mean I’m anti-police. We want justice, but stop shooting unarmed people.

I want to have the fun of doing anime and I love anime, but I can’t do storyboards because I can’t really draw and that’s what they live and die on.

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

Don’t be afraid to bloom even in the darkest of times, just like moonflower blooms in the depths of the night.

Why are we told to be afraid to hurt? Why do we avoid, run and hide? Cover up inside with shields of armor, Our shins, and elbows made of pads of plastic; We are not made of glass and tattered bits, It’s not weakness when our strength builds us to last.

I’m afraid someday my words will run out so I spend every waking moment trying to capture the human experience in purple prose.

I’m not afraid of the chance at loving you, I’m only afraid of what it could do to me.

Frightened people become angry people – as history teaches us again and again.

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

The moon is alive because of the darkness how could we – ever be afraid of something that gives the stars a home?

The more you know her the more it scares yet it makes you wish you knew her more.