I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles.

No one is asking what happened to all the homeless. No one cares, because it's easier to get on the subway and not be accosted.

I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy.

Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times.

I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles.

I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to.

Hollywood has a way of sucking the world's talent to it.

I do find myself at the moment, due to the success of School of Rock, to be on people's radar a little.

I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists.

I worked offshore as an oil worker for a couple of years.

I want to make a film about a factory worker.

I think there are more films being made, but there are probably less outlets for them and distributors.

I've never been a guy who had more than a toe in Hollywood anyway, so my toe is more easily lopped off than most.

The worst thing is that you used to be able to show interesting films on campuses. Those places are all gone.

It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.

I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen.

I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films.

Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point.

Everyone is encouraged to see their lives, the world through the eyes of the rich.

Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone.

Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here.

Whatever story you want to tell, tell it at the right size.

I lost a year or two in there, trying to get films financed that I didn't know would never get financing.

It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.

The truth will only be told over a career.

Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.

At some point youre no longer growing up youre aging. But no one can pinpoint that moment exactly.

Filmmakers are going to make films just like painters are going to paint.

As you get older, you want less from the world; you just want to experience it. Any barriers to feeling emotions get dismantled. And ordinary things become beautifully poetic.

There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth.

I didn't have a boyfriend until I was 17. There were boys at school that I would find out later had a crush on me but I was too shy to talk to them.

When it comes to boys and her weight, I think Ellenor is much more conservative than I am, and she has not had the dialogue I have had about my weight.

Americans are big boys. You can talk them into almost anything. Just sit with them for half an hour over a bottle of whiskey and be a nice guy.

I keep fit by running after my three boys all day.

Looking back, I think we were all quite mature, surprisingly responsible. In earlier wars, boys of our age had just gone off to raise hell or enlist or both, but we stayed dutifully at our desks doing tomorrow's homework.

Of course The Beach Boys will be camp.

The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.

When I first started editing GQ, it gave the impression of being, and in fact was, a gay magazine. There were female models in it and there were women on the cover, but the boys were always much, much more beautiful than the girls.

When our boys come home from France, we will have the hags flung out.

The army teaches boys to think like men.

I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

I beg you to look at the promising boys and beautiful girls in your homes and in your communities, and then you will not put these temptations in their way.

Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.

Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.

Dancing on 'Dancing With The Stars' really broadened my fan base. I jumped off the stage backwards one week, and so many women come up to me now and say, 'You're so brave. I can't believe you put yourself out there like that'. If that inspires some girl out there, then great, because boys aren't the only ones who get to have fun. We get to have fun too.

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.

Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.

We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother.