Casting is very, very important.

In good comedy, the structure comes from truth and that weird eye that looks at the way life is.

I've worked a lot with Noah Baumbach, and he doesn't make it easy to like his characters, but the stories are funny and witty and there's an edge to that kind of humanity.

The freedom to make my own mistakes is all I've ever wanted

If all you've got to do is a couple of lines, dear Jesus, don't let them down. Other people are taking responsibility.

I quite enjoy more teamwork and offering something up into the mix.

In fact, most of the work that I have done for the American Hollywood things have not been in Hollywood. The studios are going out in Europe or around the place working.

Conflict sometimes produces results, but more often than not it produces confusion at the level of everybody on the same track.

You know, Christianity has its own superstition anyway: Why you turn three times, what this saint means, why you pray to the patron saint of lost causes, why you go this way or that way.

I float from one project to another project, so you miss people and you don't see them for years.

You get to an age when you lose people close to you.

It was Francisco de Vitoria, a Catholic priest and professor, who earned the title of father of international law.

Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.

I won't swim in a pool by myself, because I think that somehow a little magic door is going to open up and let a shark out.

Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.

I love fashion! I love clothes!

I write a lot of stuff, and some of it I don't even present to Judas Priest. But having said that, my first love is to play Judas Priest music.

To believe in a child is to believe in the future. Through their aspirations they will save the world. With their combined knowledge the turbulent seas of hate and injustice will be calmed.

My bottom line is this is no time to be gambling with our economy

I walk around with a hat, sunglasses, and sunscreen all the time.

Swift as the wind. Quiet as the forest. Conquer like the fire. Steady as the mountain