“It’s always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone’s seen the last one.”

You know, sometimes I feel like I walk around with a target on my back with the films I make.

Everything’s a film idea if this is what you do.I’ve always been secretly confident that I’d never run out of ideas,because I’ve never had any.

Well, visual language is another boring discussion about the nature of film.

I’m me, I live from film to mouth.

You learn real early to make a film and then duck, and basically that’s how I go about it.

You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.

Anyway, I just haven’t been able to find any humanity in any Republican candidate ever in my entire life.

It’s part of the general global hypnotism to accept lies as the new truth.

Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it’s often only found in moments of truth.

I just live my life, see things theway I do, and I’m just looking for a notion to hang it all on.

Nick plays a corrupt politician, which is kind of a redundant statement.

Ever since I was a kid, I just loved those comedians on TV who would just have fun with the language.

So one of the most unique things on screen in American movies today is everyday behavior.

The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything.

It’s also stamina in your direction, stamina in your interests. If you are working on different things but all of them very hard, you’re not really going to get anywhere. You’ll never become an expert.

To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.

The third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.

If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?

If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.

[John D. Rockefeller] didn’t care about anyone he did anything just to be rich and be the only company standing without any competition. He destroyed anyone else.

Graham Greene at 82 years old was still writing, and I don’t think anyone can deny the force, the expertise, and the unique quality of his writing, if you take his complete oeuvre.