Those movies sure got me into a rut.

I’ve always wanted to do a family movie.

The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew’s cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo’s choice to know the truth. It’s a beautiful, beautiful story.

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

In Germany, they all thought I was a bit mental, very emotional.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

It’s hard work making movies. It’s like being a doctor: you work long hours, very hard hours, and it’s emotional, tense work. If you don’t really love it, then it ain’t worth it.

For me, the way I stay consistent is through stand-up comedy.

Yes, I’m always – I’m always surprised when you make a film and you live with it a while and you put it out, you never dream that anybody is ever going to want to really see it.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

We humans are self-absorbed by nature, and spend most of our time focusing inwardly on our emotions, on our wounds, on our fantasies.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

I love good film, whether it’s an independent or studio film. The independent films, I think the good ones aren’t necessarily eccentric ones but they’re the more specific ones.

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

One of the skills I had to learn and become proficient in is kissing a man. I had never kissed a man. Will Smith did it in his movies, so did Jake Gyllenhaal, and I figured it was my time. So it was me and Steve Carell – fantastic.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

I’m the type person, my safe place to be emotional is the booth.

Everybody loved ‚The A-Team‘ because it was entertainment, pure and simple.

The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

I really believed that fear is contagious.

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

I work hard for the audience. It’s entertainment. I don’t need validation.

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

I’ve found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

I went through a period when I felt my film characters were having more fun than I was. It might partly explain why I ended up tattooed or doing certain extreme things in my life.

You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects. But you never know.

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.

I listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn’t eat or sleep.

The heart is forever inexperienced.

See, ‚A Time to Kill‘ was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.

I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don’t know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

I think that people are interested seeing me on the screen.

Yes, it is one of my ultimate aims – it is the ultimate sense of football: to make the people happy, to let them live some emotions that you usually can’t get.

I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television – there wasn’t a lot to entertain us. When it rained, I stayed inside reading, writing, drawing.

I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.

I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun.

Smiles are the language of love.

The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

A relationship can give you a gut wrenching feeling sometimes. It’s a real emotional ride.

Just talk to me as a father – not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?

Growing up I didn’t watch movies.

Having a child, that’s always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.

Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it – the grain, how it feels, the texture.