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An entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.

Time to stand up, for what you belive in.

The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club.

The things you own end up owning you.

It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't.

Las Vegas looks the way you’d imagine heaven must look at night.

That's the best revenge of all: happiness. Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone have a good f*cking life.

With sons and fathers, there's an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on you.

I think Los Angeles is impossible. There's just too much media focus. You can't live a normal life.

Happiness is overrated. There has to be conflict in life.

I would love to work in a Bollywood film as there is so much drama and colour in the films there.

Some people go to the movies to be reminded that everything's okay. I don't make those kinds of movies.

My idea of professionalism is probably a lot of people's idea of obsessive.

In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behaviour and we sculpt light.

I think intelligence is totally subjective; it's like sexiness.

Everything seems really simple on paper until you take a camera out of the box.

It's better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you.

I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it.

Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film.

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.

I'm fascinated by the ways in which people express themselves, because their responses are often counter to what they're actually feeling. Like when they're frightened, they tend to freeze. When they're angry, it doesn't always come out as volume. There are wonderful contradictions in the way that people express their emotions.

The Jedi are trained to let go. They're trained from birth. They're not supposed to form attachments. They can love people – in fact, they should love everybody. They should love their enemies; they should love the Sith. But they can't form attachments. So what all these movies are about is: greed. Greed is a source of pain and suffering for everybody.

This is how liberty dies - with thunderous applause!