There's a certain type of character that you can't help but come in contact with growing up and living in Brooklyn and Long Island. A certain mixture of moxie, heart, and a wise guy sense of humor.

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.

Everyone goes through their stuff when they are growing up. It's all relative. Everyone has the same situations on their menu. We just make the choices in terms of what situations we're going to eat.

There is no such thing as being good to your wife.

Peacemaking is a full-time vocation that includes each member of God's people.

The kids that were the victims ... I think we all ought to say a prayer for them.

God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.

In reality, there are very few villains who view themselves as villains. They just have a certain agenda at a certain time.

If love is killed, joy is lost. You cannot have joy without love.

When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

You realize who you're in love with is fading fast. You don't know what to do, but in that period time moves so slowly.

Ive always been able to transform happiness and pain and sorrow and tears into positive energy.