I'm intimidated anytime I work with someone who's directly outside my very insulated group of friends.

I grew up in Vancouver, man. That's where more than half of my style comes from.

People don't usually wanna kill me for one of my movies until after they've paid 12 bucks for it.

It's not dying you need to be afraid of, it's never having lived in the first place.

Please don't wear skinny jeans if you don't have skinny genes.

Claiming that someone's marriage is against your religion is like being angry at someone for eating a donut because you're on a diet.

You want to create an environment where we're fostering ideas, not rejecting them.

I feel much more comfortable as a writer than an actor. I feel like I am a much better writer than I am an actor.

Most comedy comes out of misery.

I don't think all of my ideas are good. It's almost easier when people are critical of you because it helps with the quality control.

Even vegetables have feelings in our world.

Nothing has to be funny, sometimes I just laugh to unclog my soul.

How can we do our best when we are spending our energies trying to make others lose - and fearing that they will make us lose?

Women in London are like the rich silks; they are out of fashion a great while before they wear out.

Mom! This is Haruhi! We'll adopt her someday so don't forget! ~Hikaru and Kaoru

My ideas often come from strong mental images. When I'm observing some relatively ordinary thing, I'll think, "What if...." and out of that brainstorming a story emerges.

There are various kinds of savagery: emotional, spiritual, economic, and cultural savagery.

The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out.

I want to get up there and tell entertaining stories but that are also to a certain extent clean.

There's science and there's science, is all I'm saying. Where humans are the subjects, it's mostly not science

When I came into the business, things changed a lot, and my life was in a real state of flux.