I'm sure a bunch of 15-year-old kids would way rather I do 'Superbad 2 than 'Moneyball.' But I would love to do movies like 'Superbad' and movies like 'Moneyball.'

It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do.

Germany's amongst my top three places in the world I'd like to live.

I want to meet the man who saw a turtle and said, "People will LOVE the ninja version of that."

I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.

If you're trying to make someone happy, you gotta try and make them happy.

New Orleans is like the bad-kid island in 'Pinocchio.'

The great thing about 'Allen Gregory' is that we try to make it really questionable that the things he says have happened, have really happened. We like that ambiguity.

I don't like to say mean things about people's hard work.

I mean, I find things that happened in real life to be the funniest - things that you observe instead of crazy abstract things, you know.

I mean, being shot in slow motion doing cocaine by Martin Scorsese is, like, maybe every actor's dream. Nothing will compare to it. Except maybe having kids.

Man is not valuable because he loves God. Man is valuable because God loves him.

but as long as he keeps the bad people rich and the good people scared no one will touch him

It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?

No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.

Embark on no enterprise which you cannot submit to the test of prayer.

I have long been convinced that the Christian Eucharist is but a continuation of the Eleusinian mysteries. St Paul, in using the word teleiois, almost confirms this.

The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter.

I know well enough that there have been dogs so loving that they have thrown themselves into the same grave with the dead bodies of their masters.

The space that every man occupies in the world is measured by the faith he expresses in connection with his aims and purposes.

Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.