I can stay up until the sun's up, no problem, but I do not like getting up in the morning.

You can love and hate your family with equal measure, but the power of the bond you have to have with them, you can't really ever walk away.

Daily, I visualize the smart-ass troll who lives deep in my subconscious, and I pelt him with rainbows and unicorns. I fight a battle against my judgmental thoughts. And when an opportunity arises to gain acceptance or popularity at the expense of someone else, I zip it. It's not easy.

I don't pray. I'm not a deeply religious person.

There's a reason a happy ending is called an ending. The trick of a television storyteller is to find all the rivers and mountains and valleys on the way to that ending.

'Scream' was the first thing he'd ever written that had gotten made, and I'd been in Hollywood for less than two years.

I don't know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

Great souls suffer in silence.

God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

I don't suffer of anything that I've lost.

I was depressed for a year after 'The Pianist,' and I don't suffer from that, generally. It wasn't just a depression; it was a mourning.