Fellini was [David] Lynch's master and his biggest idol, and he believed in Fellini's view that film is a dream, it's not reality. It's all about delving into the unconscious.

If you can imagine missing feeling sad, it's the only thing worse than pain.

After working with so many great actors and acting students in film school, it was a whole other thing working with Luke [Kirby].

When you encounter that first love, a young love, you do feel that your story is original. You are utterly convinced that your story has never been told before, because it hasn't.

If people are saying that somehow their connection is going to be detrimental to their health, of course they are going to reject that idea, because that's the power of falling like that.

Love is the most universal experience. There is nothing more important than love, there is nothing more meaningful than love, and there is nothing more human in people's relationships than love.

Emotions are what drives everyone. You get up in the morning and go do something because the emotion drives you to it.

I like entrepreneurial people I like people who take risks.

It's better to be burnished with use than rusty with principle.

People are very harsh critics of animated humans.

Man, I hate to get depressing on you, but I don't have a game. I'm so alone, so depressed, so dark, no.

Remember, the Legislature is the joke, not our campaign.

Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only once to the insane.

Sunlight and seeing something that was a thought become a thing and materialize - that makes me come alive.

I have a sense that many Americans, especially those like me with European or foreign parents, feel they have to invent their families just as they have to invent themselves.

What I wish more than anything is that I could start getting press about my work as an actor. That is what I do. I'm not a criminal.

No blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief.