What I don't like is when I see stuff that I know has had a lot of improv done or is playing around where there's no purpose to the scene other than to just be funny. What you don't want is funny scene, funny scene, funny scene, and now here's the epiphany scene and then the movie's over.

Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.

Bertrand Russell

Heaven, n. A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound your own.

Ambrose Bierce

To possess your soul in patience, with all the skin and some of the flesh burnt off your face and hands, is a job for a boy compared with the pains of a man who has lived pretty long in the exhilarating world that drugs or strong waters seem to create and is trying to live now in the first bald desolation created by knocking them off.

C. E. Montague

You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.

An Wang

How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.

Warren Beatty

And, we have no such thing as a budget anymore. Our manager freaks when we show him the bill. We're lavish to the bone, but all our money goes back into the product.

Freddie Mercury

I must confess that most modern mysticism seems to me to be simply a method of imparting useless knowledge in a form that no one can understand

Oscar Wilde

Love was generous precisely because it could never be immortal.

Peter S. Beagle

So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.

Rowan D. Williams

Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.

Charles Churchill

Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.

Jack Kevorkian

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

Albert Einstein