do cynics dream?

"I just feel sorry for them all. It's like they think that once they get out of here, every thing's going to be great. They'll get into that famous school, they'll be on broadway. But they won't. The sad thing is that these are the people who I'll see working at Wal-Mart, ten years from now. Alphabetizing movies onto thick plastic shelves. Movies they could have been in. And it's all because of dreams.

They run on dreams like cars run on fossil fuels. But the only problem is that dreams are different from fossil fuels. Dreams can't move you. You move you. This is so misconstrued these days. People think that because they have a dream, they'll achieve it and everything will be alright in the end. Well, it won't until you start being realistic and start running on something other than dreams. But the problem with these kids is that they don't realize it.

That's why I never wanted to be an artist. Because I'm not going to get out of here, paint on the sidewalk and have a millionaire walk up behind me and say "this is brilliant". Life doesn't work that way for people like me. And I doubt it works for them like that too. I guess that I don't believe in dreams as a whole anymore. I've become too cynical."

"I think you're too young to be a cynic."

"Age has nothing to do with anything anymore."