I'm all over the place. As you may have seen from the credits, I write with everybody.

It's such a fine line between stupid and clever.

Sometimes we drop in and do an acoustic set somewhere, and that's really fun to take all these insanely loud songs, and to do them quiet. It's really a sight to see... or to hear!

Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that.

I think you have everyone kind of pulling on the same end of the rope. It's not like you're Robin Williams and everyone else is a deaf mute. It's like - there's plenty of help.

Even when there are banalities, they're usually kind of benign banalities.

I'm kind of the town pump. I think I have a pretty good ear for what sounds good in this style.

I never regret anything and I don't believe in regret. I think it's just a big time-waster.

There are people in the world who won't watch a movie that's in black and white. There's got to be a special place in hell for them.

Jazz, isn't that just a series of mistakes diguised as musical composition?

Those people that you know for a long time and that you love, they're the easiest to talk to.

FRANCISCUS: How sweetly she looks! Oh, but there's a wrinkle in her brow as deep as philosophy.

The sacredness of existence is spiritual.

Fall seven times stand up eight.

Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.

We are connected with our own age if we recognize ourselves in relation to outside events; and we have grasped its spirit when we influence the future.

Tonight I'll dust myself off, tonight I'll suck my gut in, I'll face the night and I'll pretend I got something to believe in.

They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we're always letting ourselves down. We're constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.

There's nothing wrong with saying, "I want to have more," "I want to be more," "I did this for money."

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.