If you're masochistic enough to program in ADA, we're not going to stop you.

If you're masochistic enough to program in ADA, we're not going to stop you.

It's the safety valve of middle life, and the solace of age.

I have now reached the happy age of 23. No, happy is not quite the right word. At this particular moment I am certainly not happy.

Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.

I think you have to let go of this idea that you can be precious about everything, and let it be the abstract mess that it is.

We never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we don't care if they make sense or nonsense.

The success of the film is down to the crew.

Lying the telling of beautiful untrue things is the proper aim of Art.

I'd date someone younger or older; age doesn't matter to me. Or looks, really - it's all about maturity.

Don't keep your own schedule - that will eat too much of your time keeping your own schedule. And when you are tired, stop. Because if you are too tired, you become not productive, and you are wasting time.

People have all these preconceptions about me. Whereas if you look at the roles, Henry Hill was the nicest guy in 'Goodfellas!' I was a nice guy too in the comedy 'Heartbreakers.' And I was a really sweet father to Johnny Depp in 'Blow!'

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

Increasing recycling in Delaware is an idea whose time has come and, if put off, may not come again.

Wear an unusual accessory to complete your outfit.

I believe that marriage is between one man and one woman, the same as I've believed all my life.

I used to dress like an eight-year-old boy. Traveling has inspired me to be more experimental.

You all had something to do with keeping me employed.

It's okay to work for someone else; not everyone is cut out to own a business, and even so, working for someone else is a chance to learn how to both be an employee and an employer.

In no small part I think all of us kind of look in the mirror and feel good or not feel good about the person we seen in the mirror in no small part because of the jobs we have.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course I could be wrong.

A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.

Normally as a director, you do look at other films and things that are relevant. But with this film, it became impossible because I became so aware of the camera placement.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.

The only shame is to have none.