I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker.
Marriage is part of a sort of 50′s revival package that's back in vogue along with neckties and naked ambition.
Many Texas barbecue fanatics have a strong belief in the beneficial properties of accumulated grease.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while his article is still on the presses.
Math was always my bad subject. I couldn't convince my teachers that many of my answers were meant ironically.
Most of my life wasn't about knowledge from books, but experiential knowledge.
You take this cold, remarkable, difficult, dangerous, borderline psychopath man, and you wonder what might have happened to him had he not met his best friend, a friend that no one would have put him with, this solid, dependable, brave, big-hearted war hero. I think people fall in love, not with Sherlock Holmes or Dr. Watson, but with their friendship. I think it is the most famous friendship in fiction, without a doubt.
Steve Jobs was probably mildly on the autistic spectrum. Basically, you've probably known people who were geeky and socially awkward but very smart. When does geeks and nerds become autism? That's a gray area. Half the people in Silicon Valley probably have autism.
It's unbelievable to have come through a field of 64 of the best players I've seen for a long time.