Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.
The bad news is that only the bad people reach the news because they are noisier.
I've always said I don't believe in God, I believe in Al Pacino.
I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.
You shall love. Whether you like it or not.
A part of being an actor is I people watch. I like to observe their behaviour, watch their reactions on the street and see how they talk to each other, and that's impossible when they are looking back at you. I used to enjoy taking the train and watching people in their own minds, struggling with themselves.
I'm a great believer in stunt doubles. They do an amazing job.
The beat literary movement is strong because of those very challenging and individual relationships and styles and contention and so on. So I just feel blessed by this kind of opportunity that came from it. It was a kind of seed.
Few love what they may have.
I have a philosophy, a belief, which I can see in many, many other directors that your early work is your best work, because you don't know what you're doing.
Faith drives a wedge between ethics and suffering. Where certain actions cause no suffering at all, religious dogmatists still maintain that they are evil and worthy of punishment. . . . And yet, where suffering and death are found in abundance their causes are often deemed to be good. . . . This inversion of priorities not only victimizes innocent people and squanders scarce resources; it completely falsifies our ethics.