"Here's a secret: Everyone, if they live long enough, will lose their way at some point. You will lose your way, you will wake up one morning and find yourself lost. This is a hard, simple truth. If it hasn't happened to you yet, consider yourself lucky. When it does, when one day you look around and nothing is recognizable, when you find yourself alone in a dark wood having lost the way, you may find it easier to blame it on someone else -- an errant lover, a missing father, a bad childhood -- or it may be easier to blame the map you were given -- folded too many times, out-of-date, tiny print -- but mostly, if you are honest, you will only be able to blame yourself.One day I'll tell my daughter a story about a dark time, the dark days before she was born, and how her coming was a ray of light. We got lost for a while, the story will begin, but then we found our way."

"Demasiada cordura puede ser la peor de las locuras, ver la vida como es y no como debería de ser.Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be."

"If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live"

"Never stop. Never stop fighting. Never stop dreaming. And don’t be afraid of wearing your heart on your sleeve - in declaring the films that you love, the films that you want to make, the life that you’ve had, and the lives you can help reflect in cinema. For myself, for a long time… maybe I felt inauthentic or something, I felt like my voice wasn’t worth hearing, and I think everyone’s voice is worth hearing. So if you’ve got something to say, say it from the rooftops."

"I was lost yesterday, I am found today and I will be forgotten tomorrow."

"I wonder if I'll ever have to decide which is worse, life as we're living or no life at all."

"To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is."; NEH 2003 Jefferson Lecturer interview profile]"

"The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers."

"Each time we don't say what we wanna say, we're dying."

"Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?"

"If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit."

"I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep."

"We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day."

"I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one."

"Opening up to the wrong person is like putting ammo in their hands."

"Do nothing, and nothing happens. Life is about decisions. You either make them or they're made for you, but you can't avoid them."

"I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy."

"Anything can happen in life, especially nothing."

"Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the material world and, since it is the spirit that travels, it is the spirit that is experienced. That is why there exist contemplative souls who have lived more intensely, more widely, more tumultuously than others who have lived their lives purely externally."

"I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world."

"People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring."

"The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve."