"If you go in with a plan to make a point, and you know what your narrative is going to be already, in our mind, it's probably not worth telling."

-- Lynn Novick

“We also confuse trust with familiarity.”

Source : Robert C. Solomon, Fernando Flores (2003). “Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life”, p.55, Oxford University Press
“The accumulation of wealth is followed by an increase of care, and by an appetite for more.”
“My characters are more like men than these real men are, see. They're rough and rude, they got hands and they got bellies. They hate and they lust; break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.”

Source : Letter to Harold Preece, c. January or February 1928.
“It's a long climb up Fools' Hill.”
“But it becomes disrespectful when the artist's process is not respected.”
“I seem to thrive by destroying the last thing I did, in a kind of cartoon Nietzsche way. Emerson says in "Experience" something like "every ultimate fact soon becomes the next in a series." The self feels more real when you are destroying things you've made than when you are paying them homage. That's the good news about being self-destructive. The bad news, I feel I don't need to deliver.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I've had the opportunity to play the drug dealer who gets gang-raped, and I'm like, "For what reason? Doing it just to do it? To just show people that I can be sexy or dark?" I don't want to do something just to make that point. It needs to happen organically, and I'm really confident it will. I'm a pretty patient person, and I'll wait until we find the right stuff.”
“Society does not go down because of the activities of criminals, But because of the inactivities of the good people.”

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