I love, love writing about Los Angeles. I love exploring every part of it. And I find, rather than a burden, it's actually one of the most enjoyable parts of the writing process for me. I love everything about L.A. Okay, not the traffic. But I love t...
Lester Bangs: Music, you now, true music - not just rock n roll - it chooses you. It live in your car, or alone listening to your headphones, you know, with the cast scenic bridges and angelic choirs in your brain. It's a place apart from the vast, b...
I did tons of theater in school, and then when I was 16 and got my driver's license, I started driving to Los Angeles, along with my friend Eric Stoltz, who was a year ahead of me and was doing the same thing. So we had the same manager, and we start...
Without your wound where would your power be? It is your very remorse that makes your low voice tremble into the hearts of men. The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken on ...
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no one notices the contrast of white on white, and in between the moon and you, the angels get a better view of the crumbling difference between wrong and right. I walk in the air, between the r...
Reality is neurology, and is not absolute.
Experience is the best teacher.
There has been a change in attitude, though.
Many nonprofits rely on grants alone.
Remember we're all in this alone.
Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.
Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.
He who angers you conquers you.
To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.
Film and art are close together.
I want to know art.
Timing has a lot to with art.
There's an art to comedy.
Sometimes art is ahead of revolution.
...luck is not to be coerced.
The subject I was best at in school was biology.
