I find the world more absurd now than I did when I was a kid.

In terms of popular cinema, 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is as near perfection as I can think of.

The films that I really enjoy now are films that are made by, for wont of a better word, mavericks.

There are some people who walk into a room and they oxygenate it, by their very being there's fresh air. Then there are those who come in with the smell of death and they suck the life out.

Filmmaking is something I have to do. It's not something I particularly want to do.

You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you.

I know virtually no one of my age who can remember a hug, or a smile from their father, or a 'Let's go play football.'

A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it's only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers, your directors come into being.

Life is much weirder than fiction; nothing's more absurd.

I hate it when something is set in 1967 and every piece of furniture was made in 1967. No! If it's set in 1967, people have furniture given to them by their grandmother, which she bought in 1932!

When things are really painful, I turn it into comedy.

There was something in her eyes that drew me in. I wanted to make the sadness she tried to hide go away." -Cage York

I've never written jokes. I mean, I'll write things on a piece of paper and riff on them onstage.

Science, when applied to personal relationships, is always just wrong .

I have become a bit obsessed with eyebrows, I used to never have any and then I realised big eyebrows are good and now I'm an eyebrow fiend. Everyone comes to me to get their eyebrows done.

I am not one to brag but to tell you the truth mang, I am funkier then a locker room after a hoop game.

I write autobiographically, although I apply liberal amounts of poetic license.

Everybody got their something.

I had things with numbers - because I love numbers - but it's not something I'm proud of. I'm proud that I was able to send them away, because you're much more present.

As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be.

The man who fights against his own country is never a hero.