He had written my mother once that he wanted her to be the first thing he saw every morning and the last thing he ever saw. And that's how it turned out.
One of the beautiful things about men is that they're very in the moment. That's why they don't want to have an argument about what happened six months ago.
If you look at attitudes today and where they are headed, it's clear to me that supporting equal rights, including the rights to civil marriage, is a net positive for winning elections, as well as the right thing to do.
Well it kind of is project to project because as a writer I think you always write to some degree about things that you know or things that happened - but my favourite filmmakers, my favourite movies of theirs tend to be the personal movies.
One thing I was thinking about the other day was you can't even conceive of the kinds of things you can do in movies today. The idea that you could draw, in a computer, dinosaurs and have them running around was totally impossible.
Scaring someone's the hardest thing to do, and that's why most of these scary movies are not scary. They're sick, but not scary. There's a lot of sickness out there, of people who then sit there and watch it, which I think is absolutely dismaying.
If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.
I did direct two short movies. I learned many things, and one of the things I learned was that I am not a director. It has to be visceral, and it's not for me. I feel much more comfortable acting.
Lester Burnham: [narrating] It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself.
Karen Richards: Where were we going that night, Lloyd and I? Funny, the things you remember and the things you don't.
David Huxley: How can all these things happen to just one person?
Vivian: You've forgotten one thing - me. Philip Marlowe: What's wrong with you? Vivian: Nothing you can't fix. [last lines]
Holly Golightly: Promise me one thing: don't take me home until I'm drunk - very drunk indeed.
One of the things about being a boy, especially growing up without a father, is you really don't have that role model to teach you how to do things.
As an atheist, I think there are lots of things religions get up to which are of value to non-believers - and one of those things is trying to be a bit better than we normally manage to be.
Occasionally I do things against my inner voice, but you really should go for the thing that touches you most-even if you don't quite know why it does.
Take ice. Ice is fascinating to me. Ice is the one thing in our world that went from an agricultural product to being manufactured.
Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before.
We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But it does not mean we are evil, or that we cannot be trusted ever afterward.
Doesn’t make any difference how hard the thing is or how much you want to do something else. Do the thing you first started and do it as well as you possibly can.
When you live in New York, one of two things happen - you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from.
