I think my mom exposed me to the concept of using your voice for anything you care about.

Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.

I love to rescue animals.... The pounds were so crowded they were putting animals down almost immediately. Seven thousand dogs were put to sleep.

I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket.

The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour

If my career were a hairstyle, it would be helmet-head.

Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about

We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that

What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?

You don't have to run away from life your whole life. You can really live. You can change. And you can be an agent of change.

There is so much in the world to care about.

We recorded that trio and it's out on the Knitting Factory label. I've got another record in the can with that group and Marc, which I'll hopefully finish some time before next summer.

Time mends all, ends all things earthly.

I'm going to become the Pope next year. Nothing is impossible.

To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.

Individual liberty and interdependence are both essential for life in society.

For me, who loves to draw and who loves to write and cannot choose between one or the other, the comic is the best form.

Liar, lawyer, mirror show me. What’s the difference?

More is not better. Better is better!

Some people are not capable of giving you what you're trying to get from them.

The history of life is a tale of decimation and later stabilization of few surviving anatomies, not a story of steady expansion and progress.