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.

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.

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.

It's a truism in technological development that no silver lining comes without its cloud.

Always be humble enough to learn something new. Otherwise, it's only a matter of time before your knowledge becomes outdated.

When I was a kid growing up in New York, I was pretty unaware of racism. I think when we're young - before we lose our innocence - we're sort of unaware of the more flawed qualities of each other.

A green Christmas makes a fat graveyard.

Maybe other people are like mirrors that we see ourselves in; versions of ourselves that vary dramatically depending on the particular cut of glass.

The next greatest pleasure to love is to talk of love.

...Delay, says Dr. Manner, is a luxury which people with right-now cancers cannot afford.

Choas will come, calm will follow, and then it will start up all over again. The secret is to savor the ride.

Rap is from the streets and I'm from the streets. That's why a lot of people accept me.

Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.