I had always fantasized about going to the Pyramids, the Great Wall; I've always been sort of obsessed with the whole notion of Everest.

I made 'Going Greek', which was a very sort of crappy fraternity comedy that I did back in 2000.

For me, screenwriting is all about setting characters in motion and as a writer just chasing them. They should tell you what they’ll do in any scene you put them in.

We'll probably live 20 more years than our grandparents did. The question is, what are you going to do with those extra 20 years?

I was out in L.A. and I had gone to film school and I was out here for a couple of years. For a lot of years, I was bartending and having a good time.

I get a million ideas a day and I don't put too much weight on any one of them. The ones that really stick in my head are the ones I end up doing.

I would rather lie facedown on the ground and use my body as a bridge, than stand proud and tall and use my body as a wall.

Heralds don't sing about men who lived in orthodoxy or played it safe, they sing about men who lived an uncertain future and took enough risks to make your head spin.

The good thing about working alone is I get a lot done and I can experiment more. The bad thing is I miss out on the gregarious, social way that most musicians work.

We have different kinds of intimacy with many, many people. I'm disappointed by well-written novels that only deal with two or three people.

Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.

I was born in New Zealand, so I have a lot of family there.

Never give up! it is wiser and betterAlways to hope, than once to despair.Fling off the load of Doubt's cankering fetter,And break the dark spell of tyrannical care.

If he did not succeed, he at least failed in a glorious undertaking.

I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

I've taken off two months, three months at a time, and, by the end, I get really squirrelly. My night life, my dream life, gets extremely populated and crazed.