I think people like comedies and I think concept driven comedies seem to be working when it's a clear concept and you deliver funny stuff.

Bangkok, like Las Vegas, sounds like a place where you make bad decisions.

It's all about escapism. That's essentially what all movies are about. It's a vicarious thrill.

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

Music is just one of the tools a director has with which to paint and I think it's one of the most effective.

I was taught that you didn't want to be part of the group - that it was better to do your own thing.

You set the tone on the set that you want to see in the film.

I just thinks it's interesting what it takes an actor to find their characters through the wardrobe, or the hair, or the way a character walks.

You're never nice to your friends. You're nice to people you don't like!

I take it very seriously, music. I think it's one of the tools that a director has with which to kind of paint. The right music can sometimes do five pages of scripted dialogue.

To make a movie about mayhem, sometimes you have to go to mayhem.

True Leaders take an Ordinary Person and turn them into an Extraordinary Performer.

My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.

It's a little mad, but I believe I am many people. When I am writing a poem, I feel I am the person who should have written it.

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.

I'm also a fan of ridiculously coloured and patterned socks.

I'm from around Tennessee. I ran away when I was 12 years old and I ain't never looked back.

Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind

There cannot be a cause without an effect, the present must have had its cause in the past and will have its effect in the future.

My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.

Other actors are not my concern, and that's their life and that's their journey. Everybody has to get to a point in their own time and their own way.