I grew up a big comic book reader, as a kid, and I love the whole fanboy crowd.

I love walking around and grabbing coffee and sitting in a park and people watching… I love Greenwich Village.

Sometimes people say things they don't mean, and you just have to let it go.

I wake up at the same time every day to get to the gym.

I'm glad that I lost, I'm glad that I failed, I'm glad that I felt that way and decided to do something about it... I never wanted to feel that way again and it drove me.

I was single long enough, and when I was, it wasn't about putting notches in the bedpost.

The best love advice I've ever received is probably, 'I'm not leaving the relationship; I'm just leaving the house.'

Women do a lot of uncomfortable things for men - and I appreciate it all. I appreciate high heels. I appreciate thongs.

I wouldn't tell anyone to study werewolves - I studied wolves, how they moved, their tendencies and sensibilities.

I don’t think there’s any such thing as male objectification

When I'd be out-and-about at a club and the music would come on, I was never the guy that was gonna dance. But after Magic Mike - I have like two or three go-to moves. That's what Magic Mike gave me.

I don't think I make genre movies. There is a certain type of violence in my films but I think I have my own genre because I made it happen like that.

In the 1950s that tug-of-war between the expectations of behaving normally and the limitlessness of thinking freely produces some very strange characters.

Poetry implies the whole truth. Philosophy expresses a particle of it.

I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.

Without love, the world itself would not survive.

I take care of military families. Their sacrifices are very real.

Negative thinking is always expensive--dragging us down mentally, emotionally, and physically--hence I refer to any indulgence in it as a luxury.

Earth is a family business.

I lived my life as a - as a part-white, part-black but then sometimes-Jewish kid.

It's usually the stupid people that develop long illnesses. You need more than indolence and selfishness, you need endurance to make a good patient.