Self-promotion has never been a point, and I'm incredibly inept at self-promotion. Talking about myself is a little less inspiring than talking about the character.

A misfit like me getting anywhere in Hollywood as I somehow have, seemed, certainly at the time of 'Spanking The Monkey,' kind of out of reach, or not a very realistic take.

All the filmmakers I've worked with have taken my desire to educate myself very seriously.

Most of all, I really wanted to become a filmmaker, and I've used every acting experience to just turn it into film school.

Even the most humble role, I've always felt really wildly grateful to be getting anywhere in film business.

The man who'll lay the last stone here isn't even born yet.

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.

Sustainability is the key to our survival on this planet and will also determine success on all levels.

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.

Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric.

America is perhaps excessively mobile in the sense that there is sometimes not enough stability in communities. Dynamism in the economy is not necessarily the "be all and end all".

Over one's mind and over one's body the individual is sovereign.

He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy.

I trained for less than three-quarters of an hour, maybe five days a week - I didn't have time to do more. But it was all about quality, not quantity - so I didn't waste time jogging, ever.

I am inspired to design experiences that people actually need and love to use.