One thing in common between politics and marketing is that your greatest strength can often be your greatest weakness.

When one sees his own faults, he will not have the time to see the others’ faults.

Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

The only way to retrieve a secret, once known, is to replace it with a lie.

A "good" family, it seems, is one that used to be better.

It's hard dealing with day to day disappointments and feeling like you can't find success. Especially when your best friend is Pixar.

I remember Paul [Dano] had said at one point that when he finished this film [Swiss Army Man] was the strongest he'd ever been just from lugging me around for [several] weeks.

Sweet May lies fresh before us, To life the young flowers leap, And through the Heaven's blue o'er us The rosy cloudlets sweep.

I'm German, after all.

Music's the best thing we do as humans, isn't it? Music, I mean you flail your limbs, make you move in a way you don't understand. Or it can make you weep like a sailor's wife staring at a storm.

Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.