The only true currency in this bankrupt world are the moments you share with someone when you’re uncool.
I will see you in another life when we are both cats.
In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody’s got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.
Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.
The power of music is still with me, every day. It’s one of the most inspiring things available in the world.
Optimism is a revolutionary act.
I always tell the girls never take it seriously, if you never take it seriously you never get hurt, if you never get hurt you always have fun, and if you ever get lonely just go to the record store and visit your friends.
I have heard your words and your disappointment, and I offer you a heart-felt apology to all who felt this was an odd or misguided casting choice.
I write with music. I write scenes in movies that hopefully can earn the use of some songs that are powerful to me.
Time puts things in proper perspective.
Hey, I don’t have all the answers. In life, to be honest, I’ve failed as much as I’ve succeeded. But I love my wife. I love my life. And I wish you, my kind of successes.
Take it from your own life, write what you believe in.
Be positive, be positive. It’s rough out there, but don’t succumb. Don’t succumb to the cynicism in the world.
Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist.
Well it kind of is project to project because as a writer I think you always write to some degree about things that you know or things that happened – but my favourite filmmakers, my favourite movies of theirs tend to be the personal movies.
I wanted to follow the path of music and feel that power, and I couldn’t turn back.