I've gone through my whole life caring deeply what people think of me.

I hope that I'm always struggling, really. You develop when you're struggling. When you're struggling, you get stronger.

I've realised that at the top of the mountain, there's another mountain.

Hate doesn't end hate. Love ends hate.

I've been obsessed with Michael B. Jordan since The Wire. He's so charismatic and talented. It'd be even better—we'd have interracial bisexuality!

I do just want to be an actor. The thing I get out of it is actually doing the job and inhabiting the world and the role - and I mean that genuinely. That's what I'm in it for.

That's all I want, to keep losing myself.

When I first saw Emma Stone, it was like I woke up.

If I can keep losing myself - and finding parts of myself - in other people's writing and direction, then that's all I can really ask for. That's all I want, to keep losing myself.

I feel incredibly awkward as a human being and incredibly teenaged still.

After a while, you crave pajamas and a shaved head.

Your persona, talents, desires, etc. are intricately connected to your life’s purpose. The synchronicity of your persona, talents, desires, passions, dreams, etc. is not a coincidence.

They didn't realize that her clumsiness was not the ordinary kind, not poor coordination. It was just because she wasn't sure where the edges of her body ended and the rest of the world began.

I'm not very good at the accordion. If I played guitar, I wouldn't be on anyone's album. But because I play the accordion and no one else does, I end up doing strange things.

Who breaks his faith, no faith is held with him.

There are moments in my show that are very moving as well as amusing.

Watch for the devil. When there’s a god, there’s always a legion of devils.

I became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father.

I think people are getting more and more -unfortunately - inured to violence. People are less sensitive to things they should wake up about.

My biggest achievement is my children.