When I first met the world, basically, or introduced myself to people, I was in 'Superbad,' and I feel the same way I felt promoting 'Superbad' in an underdog style that I feel promoting 'Moneyball.'

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.

The Power of Intuition is not Magic, but pure Logic for those who let it burst from their Inspiration!

Today's progress, was once yesterday's discussion. Speak aloud, see it through, and most importantly believe!

One Decision Makes All the Difference

The second her lips met mine a million dreams began to flicker before my still-open eyes.

Man must endure his going hence.

The Saudis would struggle in Europe because of that problem with those prayers five times a day.

In the name of God, impure souls of the living dead shall be banished into eternal damnation. Amen.

One day, in the San Francisco walk, he came upon some badly painted figures and observed that good painters imitate nature but bad ones vomit it forth.

Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s

Do we always grind through the present, doomed to throw a gold haze of fond retrospect over the past?