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I'd like to direct again, but that's really hard to get something and raise the money. It's difficult to find just the right thing.

My ex-wife, she really didn't like the material that I did. And that's something I regret, that I wasn't more careful about making sure that she was O.K. with it. I just sort of didn't ask. So that's how that goes.

Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.

I have brothers, and that so-called boyish quality was something that I was deathly self-conscious about when I was younger.

I think in the old days, the nexus of weirdness ran through Southern California, and to a degree New York City. I think it's changed so that every bizarre story in the country now has a Florida connection. I don't know why, except it must be some inversion of magnetic poles or something.

The Canteen Boy, the reason you feel bad for him and you can laugh is because he, and I guess a lot of my characters, they don't notice they're getting made fun of. So they'll say something back that's not that great a quip, but in their mind they won the argument.

Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.

You know when they have a fishing show on TV? They catch the fish and then let it go. They don't want to eat the fish, they just want to make it late for something.

I just think that the collective experience of going to see a film is something you can't recreate.

From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn't know exactly what.

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

I knew I had to be the best at something, otherwise I would be nothing. I knew I wanted the world to know about Brigitte Bardot.

People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.

It was what became something of a pattern in the first couple of years of the Clinton White House and maybe even longer, where information would drip, drip, drip, drip, drip out which would keep stories alive, alive, alive.

The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.

There are so many reactions to art that make sense to me - but 'ick' means something.

Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.

What's fascinating is that when you write a script, it's almost a stream of consciousness. You have an idea that it means something, but you're not always sure what. Then when you get on the set, the actors teach you.

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

I would love to make a real jazz album someday because I never have. But that's something I'm not in a rush to do.

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

When I was 14, I felt very rundown; I had a home to go to, but I felt like I was 60 or something, older than I feel now. And I don't know if it's something that happens at 14, or whether it was adolescence or whether I was gay, or closeted gay, or whatever it was, I felt that.

Don't try too hard to be something you're not.

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.