"I personally think that Hollywood agencies ought to play a much better role in the development of Chinese films. Otherwise they're missing out on a lot of opportunities."

“I have always been jealous of artists. The smell of the studio, the names of the various tools, the look of a half-finished canvas all shout of creation. What do writers have in comparison? Only the flat paper, the clacketing of the typewriter or the scrape of a pen across a yellow page. And then, when the finished piece is presented, there is a small wonder on one hand, a manuscript smudged with erasures or crossed out lines on the other. The impact of the painting is immediate, the manuscript must unfold slowly through time.”

“Nothing good ever climbed up the side of a boat.”

“For the really scary stuff to work at the end you have to fall in love a little bit with the family and want then to be ok. And once you get the audience to buy in on that then they care. They want them to be okay.”

“Man, I hate to get depressing on you, but I don't have a game. I'm so alone, so depressed, so dark, no.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“Not necessarily narrow so much as impatient, intense.”

“I'm really funny now.”

“When I said that the mentally ill should be in institutions, public universities weren't the kind of institutions I had in mind.”

“Sometimes I am convinced there is nothing wrong with this country that couldn't be cured by the magical implantation of ethical standards on us all - leaders and followers. Until that becomes doable, the Center for Public Integrity is just about the best thing we have going for us.”