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I'd rather have an asshole than a dork. Why? Because at least I know where the asshole stands. The dork's trying to be everything to everybody that he thinks they want them to be. I don't want to be that. I don't really enjoy being around that person because I can't trust him. And when I've been one, I couldn't trust myself.

The best work I've done in my career is when my head's down in the process and it is completely a subjective experience, and I don't give a damn what you think about or what anyone else thinks about it, and I sure as hell don't give a damn about the result.

What better subject to study than ourselves? What better subject to interrogate and investigate daily? What's the one character that... we should never get bored with chasing to figure out? It's also the one character that we can't get away from: ourselves. It's the one person that we can't get rid of.

There's a game in Hollywood. It is an affair. It's not necessarily a marriage. And there's a game to play, and it's better to be better to want it and not need it.

I don't believe everybody can do what they love to do. If everyone just did what they love to do, we'd have an extremely high unemployment rate.

I believe that there are selfish choices we can make that are the most selfless; that there are selfless choices that we can make that are the most selfish choices. Those two are not a contradiction, and we see them that way.