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I no longer want to live in an apartment furnished with forklifts and backhoes.

A problem that I have with everything fictional is that writers are always having to come up with sudden artillery explosions in the middle of whatever is going on. The characters are having interesting, subtle interactions, or jealousies, or whatever it is, and suddenly some gigantic angry eruption has to happen, a giant gasp where everyone has to scramble around. That's the point where I'm turned off. I want the dynamic range to be a little smaller. I don't like the big false bangs.

I finished your song, she said. Our last song. And I want to play it for you.

Tough toenails, tiger. What you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things.

Marriage is about compromise; it's about doing something for the other person, even when you don't want to.

Maybe I don't want to be defined by what I do. Maybe I'd like to be defined by what I am.

I'll be anything you want, just tell me what you want and I'll be that.

I'm sure you think that I don't understand what you're going through, but I do. It's just that sometimes, our future is dictated by what we are, opposed to what we want.

How do you want to create peace, if there is no peace inside yourselves?

We don't want other people poking into our artistic pie.

I don't like mysteries, which is why I want to solve them. It bothers me that there are things I don't know.

There's people in hell who want ice water.

Rappers make what's in, in. If we want to bring back something like Jordache, we just say it and the girls start wearing it. We have a lot of pull.

The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it.

If God wants something done, can it be done? I am personally convinced that no goal God has for my life is impossible, uncertain, nor can it be blocked.

We thought that whatever we wanted to do was right and good, simply because we were Americans, and we would succeed at it because we were Americans.

I love jokes as much as anyone, but I don't want to hear my snail jokes every day. But I might want to hear a good song every day.

I want to be an improviser, and I've worked very hard at that. It's an art. You don't just play whatever comes into your head; you have to be very deliberate about what you do.

The voiceover thing is very selfless. You go in there and they've hired you for your voice, but they know exactly what they want, and the writer's there and he knows exactly how it's supposed to be said. So you can't really argue with them, you just have to let them tell you what to do and then do it.

I don't want to have to inadvertently find a gift and go like, "What the hell is? Oh no, that's for me." And then have to pretend like I'm surprised later. If I know where they're hidden, I will not look. I love presents and I hate faking surprises.

Why does she want me?" Coraline asked the cat. "Why does she want me to stay here with her?" "She wants something to love, I think," said the cat. "Something that isn't her. She might want something to eat as well. It's hard to tell with creatures like that.

People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.

I'm not staid and unbiased here. I have certain biases I want to convey, and if you disagree, that's fine.

I want to see the writers strike because the writers, god bless them, are the only true commies we have in Hollywood.

Passion is the love of turning being into action. It fuels the engine of creation. It changes concepts to experience.... Never deny passion, for that is to deny Who You Are, and Who You Truly Want To Be.