Quotes

There's a writing adage that says, 'Write yourself into a corner.' My brother and I have always loved that adage.

People always say, 'Oh, I'd love to work with my sibling,' or 'My God, I could never work with my sibling.' It was just a natural process for us. We started collaborating on our first films and it evolved. We have a passion for film that we shared as we were growing up.

We saw 'Swiss Army Man' and fell in love with the Daniels, who are adventurous filmmakers and radical storytellers, pushing the boundaries.

What Joe and I love about the film industry, it's like the wild West. We're two guys who grew up a million miles away from the film business; it doesn't matter where you come from or where you go to school. All that matters is, can you find a way to practice the craft and express yourself in a way that people respond to.

Our experience making 'Pieces,' all it did was confirm our passion for film making to ourselves. We were having the time of our lives, and we were in love with what we were doing.

The thing I always loved about the movie business is it is really a cowboy industry in the sense that there's no prescribed road into it or through it.

I think that's part of the fun for us: we love looking at movies through the filter of a specific character - characters who aren't the lead - and figuring out the film from their point of view.

When you micro-analyze the approval ratings, there's aspects, and the questions come in, 'I love the president, but I dislike X, Y, Z,' or 'I like the president but dislike X, Y, Z.'

General Petraeus is a man that has the backbone that somebody like President-elect Trump would love.

I love doing the analyst stuff. I really do.

Had Glover been a three-round fight, I would have won that fight. Had I not gotten the two leg kicks, I'm fairly confident I beat Rakic. Both of those guys did great jobs, they're both incredible competitors.

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.

I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.

Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.

A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.

Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.

I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a man and a woman, than there is between two thrushes. They whistle and call to each other, guided by instinct rather than by reason.

I do like silver. I love antiques. I collect Georgian glass at home. When you think about how fragile that it is and think about how long these things have lasted - some of it is 400 years old - I find the history of these things extraordinary.

I love the alchemy of cooking, the theatre of it. It's creating something.

I love observing both vocally and by sight. So I take on a lot of those elements of people around me.

What I don't want is to be in the public's face all the time. I know there are people who will do anything and everything to be out there. That's not my agenda. I love doing what I do and doing it for a period of time and then stopping.

Yes, my mum had a huge influence on my life and the love she had for me, the love we had between each other, did sway me to not do bad things. Sometimes they say the street raised you, but my mum did the raising.