A lot of these angles are really about trying to mimic broadcast sports angles in order to anchor the scene, to sort of normalize it before it becomes abstracted.

Somebody like Mailer brings to that role everything that he stands for. The types of characters that I gravitate towards, the types of icons, tend to have a heavy physicality in that way.

I don't think my work is so strange. It's just a matter of having the discipline to go the whole way with an idea, to stretch it as far as it can go.

A lot of my work has to do with not allowing my characters to have an ego in a way that the stomach doesn't have an ego when it's wanting to throw up. It just does it

I'm less interested in skin than in fascia -- connective tissue.

Jackass: The Movie is great. I think it's in the tradition of physical comedy, which I'm really interested in. Its relationship to gravity, and how gravity acts on the body

If this hast been done to language, I fear to know the fate of all else.

You win games with your strengths, not your weaknesses.

A lion never roars after a kill.

The moral of the story is not to listen to those who tell you not to play the violin but stick to the tambourine.

I had a lot of jobs in New York. I worked in a café and I did bike delivery and I was a mover. And I babysat, which was really cool in some cases and really insane in others.

Democracy demands patient instruction on it before legislation.

There are a lot of good memories, and because I was injured, during the rehab, I met my wife. The tennis was very good but the injuries were good for something too

If you don't love and believe in what you're building, you're likely to give up at some point along the way.

I consider myself to be respectful, and I believe this is a main value for sports.

We read books to find out who we are.