I just like playing interesting, complex, complicated characters. I like films that also have an element of humor.

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.

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.

Walk together. Feel the heart beats. Experience the presence. This is how to be thankful.

True stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.

Here’s a fact: Some people want to live moreThan others do.

The real issue is not whether baking biscuits is meaningful, but the extent to which the activity can seem to be so after it has been continuously stretched and subdivided across five thousand lives.

In answering an opponent, arrange your ideas, but not your words.

I'm such a profound believer that timing is everything; I would tattoo that on my arm.

It is almost impossible to think of something no one has thought of before, but it is always possible to add different frills.

You can't say there shouldn't be marketing and (that) marketing is a bad thing.

For small business men and women, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family.

I'm sure I spent more time in Texas than anybody else who had run for President recently.