I guess everybody's different, but I know that everybody's natural instinct is to remember the bad stuff more than the good stuff.

Yeah, I spent my teen years in West Virginia, and when I was a kid, in Louisiana. I definitely have that exposure to two different sorts of rural: the South and Appalachia.

I was good at math, math was my thing - but I was not nearly good enough to be an astrophysicist. I was way outta my league. I realized this very quickly.

In high school, I played in a Rush cover band.

One of the most important things is just to be kind to other people. That is absolutely really important to us, and important to me. That's something that you need to help your kids with, for sure.

I'm horrible at remembering names, embarrassingly bad.

Obviously, guns are a way to protect yourself.

Peter Dinklage is one of my oldest friends from New York!

When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.

Being a father is just wonderful.

I'm used to getting reviews. I try not to read much because you'll always focus on the bad ones and not remember the good ones, so it can be a negative thing for a performer.

Those same fists had always defied everything expected of her.

I wouldn't eat too many of those [half-baked ideas] if I were you. They may look good, but you can get terribly sick of them."-Tock

What is jealousy but a reflection of your own failures?

That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small movements first.

Reject hatred without hating.

I'm not going to change the world. You're not going to change the world. But we can help - we can all help.

Let death find us as we are building up our matchstick protests against its waves.

One thing I know that's really cool - it seems to me that Blake Schwarzenbach [Jets to Brazil frontman; ex-Jawbreaker] is someone who's made music that's people continue to take really personally.

I try to research or make up for myself what happened in any character's life. From when he was born until the first page of the script. I fill in the blanks.

In civilized communities men's idiosyncrasies are mitigated by the necessity of conforming to certain rules of behavior. Culture is a mask that hides their faces.