People who need therapy are in Afghanistan. They've seen horrible human cruelty and degradation, but they don't have time or the money for therapy.

You know, what's interesting is, being your own self is kind of a blur.

When we were doing 'The Sopranos', I used to love that about it. There were rules, Mafia codes you had to go by, but the code is ridiculous. It's a code among sociopaths.

When I was a kid, I used to watch 'Laurel and Hardy' with my cousins all the time. I still think they're extremely funny and so surreal.

Don't get too comfortable. We are here for a certain period of time, and how much of your life are you gonna choose to spend with distractions? How do you make your choices? What is important?

When I was doing 'The Sopranos,' I liked putting music together with the film; that was my favorite part of it.

The Sopranos' is filled with really retrograde humor. Bathroom humor, falls, stupid puns, bad jokes - infantile, adolescent stuff, but it makes me laugh.

Psychology doesn't address the soul; that's something else.

Hope comes in many forms.

It doesn't matter if your lead character is good or bad. He just has to be interesting, and he has to be good at what he does.

There's something very dreamlike about film, and I will always be very fascinated by that, and I'm always tempted to go in that direction.

You have the capacity to do the work.Find the willpower to begin work.

Answer me immediately or I'll start cutting away everything that's pretty on you...and then put it back.

My family has always believed that when we are faced with large and apparently impossible problems, the best solutions are found by the insane people, not the sensible ones.

Good and bad luck is a synonym in the great majority of instances for good and bad judgment.

We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.

I do believe in [Robert] Bresson's method of creation through omission, not through addition.

Allow your head to be quiet. Allow it to be still. Just for an hour and half. Just deal with your body & your breath.

There are guys who want to be together, there are woman who want to be together, and there and men and women who want to be together.

Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose

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