"The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first."
"I've noticed that when people are joking they're usually dead serious, and when they're serious, they're usually pretty funny."
"Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is."
"No one here gets out alive."
"I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences."
"We're reaching for death on the end of a candle We're trying for something that's already found us"