The director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell. He gave me a lot of responsibility as an actor.

What's "God"? Well, you know, when you want something really bad and you close your eyes and you wish for it? God's the guy that ignores you.

Do you think god stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he's created here on earth?

Communication is the key, and it's one thing I had to learn-to talk to the actors. I was so involved with the visual and technical aspects that I would forget about the actors.

Just because people want to eat the burger doesn't mean they want to meet the cow.

I talked with Quentin about where the character came from, and he told me Kansas City. I don't know how somebody talks from Kansas City, so I made him from New York.

Really interesting things come because you don't know what the rules are, what you can and can't do.

I can't relate to 99% of humanity.

I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that.

Every day's an adventure when I step out of my door. That's why I usually wear a hat and keep my head low.

I don't tend to think of the characters i play as losers. I like the struggles that people have, people who are feeling like they don't fit into society, because I still sort of feel that way.

It's not a real name, " she says. "Not one that he's carried with him always. It's one he wears like his hat. So he can take it off if he wants.

The first category is always the man of the present, the second the man of the future. The first preserve the world and people it, the second move the world and lead it to its goal.

If you are burdened with depressing feelings of guilt or disappointment, of failure or shame, there is a cure.

We live in a world of media that are constantly telling us it is only the shape of your body that matters to how attractive you are, and that's silly.

An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.

I'm working as hard as I can to get back to Packer Nation.

I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20.

But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.

That the means of imperialist policy overshadow almost entirely its original ends has tremendous implications.

A very rich person should leave his kids enough to do anything, but not enough to do nothing.