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.

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.

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

Be humble and set the balls of your dreams rolling till God himself decides what next! As for "pride", allow it to go as a lone ranger!

I know myself as mortal, but this raises the question: "What is I?" Am I an individual, or am I an evolving life stream composed of countless selves?

Technically, I'm a New Yorker.

I am entirely persuaded that the American public is more reasonable, restrained and more mature than most of our industry's program planners believe.

To plant and maintain a flower border, with a good scheme for colour, is by no means the easy thing that is commonly supposed.

I don't really make decisions, I go with the flow.

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

You read stuff about yourself and you think, My God, where are these people coming up with these things? Why am I the one that they're picking on?

The question is asked in ignorance, by one who does not even know what can have led him to ask it.

The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.