The drama thing was something I've always wanted to do, but the opportunities are rare, and they have to be the right ones.

It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do.

Germany's amongst my top three places in the world I'd like to live.

I want to meet the man who saw a turtle and said, "People will LOVE the ninja version of that."

I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.

If you're trying to make someone happy, you gotta try and make them happy.

New Orleans is like the bad-kid island in 'Pinocchio.'

The great thing about 'Allen Gregory' is that we try to make it really questionable that the things he says have happened, have really happened. We like that ambiguity.

I don't like to say mean things about people's hard work.

I mean, I find things that happened in real life to be the funniest - things that you observe instead of crazy abstract things, you know.

I mean, being shot in slow motion doing cocaine by Martin Scorsese is, like, maybe every actor's dream. Nothing will compare to it. Except maybe having kids.

I like to read fairytales. They make my imagination go wild, and I wander in fairyland.

Grief is the emotional contract of divorce

Interlude with sunshine. Hello monday mein lazy freund.

Organizing the working class in England or the U.S. or any other advanced capitalist country has been a daunting challenge.

I don't have to explain or defend the will of God. My job is simply to obey it.

On sand, you can never be sure of anything. An ordinary shot can take a wicked deflection at the last moment.

There are rich people everywhere, and yet they don't contribute to the growth of their countries.

Walking into a room filled with people you don't know but who know you brings out your worst vulnerabilities.

The first album is a classic record and I think the prototype of a sound that no one else does.

I took part in the sun-tanning Olympics – I just got bronze.