To me, the punk rock kids I grew up with were really, really smart, and to me, respecting those kids was a really big deal.

I was like, what the hell is my life coming to? I'm a trained actor! I've done Shakespeare and here I am having farting contests with an imaginary dog!

I always think that I'm the best thing in a lot of bad movies. Personally, I have to. I think that I like me as an actor.

You may not have faith in my friend fate, But my friend fate has faith in you.

I like doing family films.

Nothing would make my kids happier than to do another movie.

Charlie Brown's good. I always had a little crush on that Lucy. I thought she was kind of a hot little brunette.

Character actors are becoming a thing of the past. They're just going by the wayside. They're just cutting through that caliber of acting.

When you're making an independent film what you don't have in time and money you have to make up with creativity and diligence.

I don't go to parties. I don't go to clubs. My friends and I don't go drinking, we play D&D. I'm still a weird entity in the world.

I think everyone is given drama, by virtue of the fact that we all have drama in our lives, but not everyone can make people laugh.

When attachment does not occur when someone gives flowers and no abhorrence occurs when someone throws stones

A Garden Is Not Passive. It has its own way of responding to your involvement and commitment to it. When you walk into a garden, you know whether it is loved or not.

Play is this process of operating the world, of manipulating things. It's related to experimentation, and it's related to pleasure, but not defined by it.

I think [Ecstasy] was a really good stab. It wasn't my strongest book or my strongest material, but they wanted to make a kinda "rave culture" movie.

My idea of life, it's what happens when they're rolling the credits.

All religions are good 'in principle' - but unfortunately this abstract Good has only rarely prevented their practitioners from behaving like bastards.

I feel it's my responsibility to turn people on to great music.

If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off.

... the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.

We come to beginnings only at the end.