Casting is everything. Getting the person that you imagined is this character and then seeing what they bring to it.

What's "God"? Well, you know, when you want something really bad and you close your eyes and you wish for it? God's the guy that ignores you.

Do you think god stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he's created here on earth?

Communication is the key, and it's one thing I had to learn-to talk to the actors. I was so involved with the visual and technical aspects that I would forget about the actors.

Just because people want to eat the burger doesn't mean they want to meet the cow.

I talked with Quentin about where the character came from, and he told me Kansas City. I don't know how somebody talks from Kansas City, so I made him from New York.

Really interesting things come because you don't know what the rules are, what you can and can't do.

I can't relate to 99% of humanity.

I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that.

Every day's an adventure when I step out of my door. That's why I usually wear a hat and keep my head low.

I don't tend to think of the characters i play as losers. I like the struggles that people have, people who are feeling like they don't fit into society, because I still sort of feel that way.

The reason as to why we are attracted to our opposites is because they are our salvation from the burden of being ourselves.

Agnes always wanted to go out. Out was better than in. In was inside, in was interior, in was introspection.

Don't strive for perfection, just do your best. Everything in life is ever revolving to be perfect.

Training distinguishes an army from an armed mob.

If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.

If the private sectors are about markets and the public sectors are about governments, then the plural sector is about communities.

A Horcrux is the complete opposite of a human being.

A dreamer lives forever, And a toiler dies in a day.

Broken china lasts longer than unbroken.

The Lord will never permit me or any other man who stands as president of this church to lead you astray.