Filmmaking is such a collaborative piece of art that you can't look to one person - you couldn't look to me, you couldn't say, 'Because Vin's in it, it's this or that...' It's really all of us coming together for that period of time to try and make magic.

The video game culture was an important thing to keep alive in the film because we're in a new era right now. The idea that kids can play video games like Grand Theft Auto or any video game is amazing. The video games are one step before a whole other virtual universe.

To have a director that loves his actors is something that you can see in the film and in the fruits of that labor. You can see that translated in the film. When you watch this movie, you can see a director who loves his actors, and it shines through the movie, in my eyes.

If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.

The majority of the filmmaking process is in pre-production. The more you've planned out the more freedom there is on set to find new stuff, to play around, find new jokes and let the actors kind of breathe - but it needs to come from a place where it's completely structured.

What was bizarre, when I was younger, I never watched TV. I would rather watch a movie 100 times than to watch a TV show, just to find another nuance. I can't tell you how many times I've watched 'On the Waterfront', just to find a flaw so that I can learn and try to improve my thing.

I approach every film I do in the same way, whether it's an action film or not an action film. I guess if a certain physicality lends itself to action, but I started acting before I reached puberty. I was 7 years old when I started acting. It wasn't until I became a bouncer in New York.

It's remarkable how a soundtrack can be so important to the storytelling and the experience. I think the music is going to make people see the movie a lot. The music is going to make you want to go see it again. You have so much fun in the movie, and it's music that you want to share with your kids, anyway.

It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.

And the rest is rust and stardust.

Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.

I think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes

Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's rapture.

He broke my heart. You merely broke my life.

Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.

Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece

I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.

Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.

You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible

I knew I had fallen in love with Lolita forever; but I also knew she would not be forever Lolita.

She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita.

Words without experience are meaningless.

We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives.

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

Let all of life be an unfettered howl.

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

And presently I was driving through the drizzle of the dying day, with the windshield wipers in full action but unable to cope with my tears.

Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity.

I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else.

And she was mine, she was mine, the key was in my fist, my fist was in my pocket, she was mine.

Dear Jesus, do something.

Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

Curiously enough, one cannot read a book; one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, and active and creative reader is a rereader.

I was weeping again, drunk on the impossible past.

All colors made me happy: even gray. My eyes were such that literally they Took photographs.

I shall be dumped where the weed decays, And the rest is rust and stardust

Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.

A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle...

Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.

You see, she had absolutely nowhere else to go.

I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.

We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless.

If a violin string could ache, i would be that string.

Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.

My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly hunting.

You know, what's so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own.

Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.