“Compared to a novel, a film is like an economy pizza where there are no olives, no ham, no anchovies, no mushrooms, and all you’ve got is the dough.”

“CONGRATULATIONS, SAN FRANCISCO! YOU’VE RUINED PIZZA! FIRST THE HAWAIIANS, AND NOW YOU!”

“I had one anchovy, that's why I didn't have two anchovies.”

“A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous. Got me?”

“A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.”

“Acting is a bit like cycling. Once you’ve got the hang of it, you just peddle on.”

“I hate this place,” Tiara whimpered. “It’s super creepy. Like a haunted Chuck E. Cheese’s where the games all want to kill you and you never get your pizza.”

“I can't think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.”

“I’ve learned that having a lot of money is more fun than not having a lot of money, and that once you’ve got it, it tends to grow all by itself, like a fire.”

“Never stop. Never stop fighting. Never stop dreaming. And don’t be afraid of wearing your heart on your sleeve - in declaring the films that you love, the films that you want to make, the life that you’ve had, and the lives you can help reflect in cinema. For myself, for a long time… maybe I felt inauthentic or something, I felt like my voice wasn’t worth hearing, and I think everyone’s voice is worth hearing. So if you’ve got something to say, say it from the rooftops.”