Tick is a cartoon character, I don't know if you're familiar with him. This is the third step in his evolution. Comic book to cartoon to, now, live-action.

The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.

You never know what's going to happen with television these days.

I believe I'm doing the right thing in trying to step away from that and to take chances and work on little independent films and do stuff like that wild dance scene.

I'll work with Jerry Seinfeld any day of the week. Get a nice little paycheck there, but you do it for free. It's just good to be associated with that man. He's a great guy.

I don't know if I ever really considered making a connection with the audience.

I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.

You don't make a fortune doing cartoons. It's a lot of fun, it keeps you busy, and it's better than a kick in the pants, absolutely. But doing voiceover work doesn't make you rich. It just doesn't.

There's just something about me and my persona that's a little bit bigger than life and ridiculous at times.

Fortunately work begets work.

Let an audience be able to find it themselves without spoonfeeding it.

You want to put people in neat categories, make them monsters or angels, but it almost never works that way. You work in the gray and frankly that kinda sucks. The extremes are so much easier.

... allow me to be an old man for a moment and to remind a young girl who is used to being impulsive that there can be none of that anymore.

If you don't embrace who you are and accept who you are, you won't be able to live a happy life.

You never truly need what you want. That is the main and thoroughgoing key to serenity.

Chess: It's like alcohol. It's a drug. I have to control it, or it could overwhelm me. I have a regular Monday night game at my home, and I do play a little online.

I'm trying to elevate small-talk to medium talk.

I believe the universe presents more options to a more loving mind.

Theoretical knowledge can not touch heart without Humility

Maybe some percentage that’s substantially larger than 95 percent of VCs add zero value. I would bet that 70-80 percent add negative value to a startup in their advising.

After I got kicked out of CalArts, I moved to Lawrence Kansas where my sister lived. I began working on A William S. Burroughs documentary. I had no idea it would turn into such a big film.