I think my strength is always been in being very natural. I think Shakespeare and things like that would be more a stretch for me.

It is exhausting to be running around pretending to be scared at night - It sounds so wussy actory.

There’s definitely times when you’re frustrated for whatever reason, but that happens on fifty million dollar movies when you have a huge trailer, so who cares?

I used to like the word of the day and when I read, highlight words that I didn't know and look them up.

I'm compulsively on time. It drives me insane when people are late.

I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.

I really have no preference between TV and film. I think that each individual project is its own thing and has a very different style.

Zen is the purest of meditations: just sit silently, doing nothing.

Harry looked at him and you could see the murder come in his face. ... Harry didn't say anything, but you could see the killing go out of his face and his eyes came open natural again.

I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.

Men make love more intensely at 20, but make love better, however, at 30.

Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved.

You know when I first thought I might have a chance? When I realized that you could go into any bar in the country and insult Lyndon Johnson and nobody would punch you in the nose.

There's a fear that I don't think people are interested in my actual opinion. I just think people are interested in me being funny.

I believe that for the most part, achieving success - whatever that is for you - is mostly a matter of personal choice and that, initially, making the right choices can be difficult.

Christ was born of a woman without the man.

We just believe in what we make and we're in a very fortunate position to be able to make stuff regardless of what model that follows.