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

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.

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.

My real training as an actor was when I started doing theatre.

If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.

...you never knew anybody completely. Not even yourself.

Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency.

We are just so thankful that Christ does not measure us by what we do. God is not measuring us by that, He is measuring us by our faith in Christ.

Truth lives in the spaces between words. It defies translation.

I didn't think I was gonna be playing on the Oscars or anything.

In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble.

Growing corn, which from a biological perspective had always been a process of capturing sunlight to turn into food, has in no small measure become a process of converting fossil fuels into food.

"Well, we knew it. Women can't sell movies". That's what it used to be like. "Well, this movie did well, but it's a fluke."

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.