Growing up in a small town, in the Midwest, and Catholic: Those are sort of three layers of repression.

In your 20s, you're checking your bank account to make sure you're not broke. In your 30s, you're looking at yourself and realizing you're broken.

I think a lot of nights together have been spoiled by somebody not being able to find a parking spot and saying, "Why don't we just go home?"

If I heard there was a new show, and the creators were writing about how they met, I would be like, "Pass!"

Relations are simply a tedious pack of people who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

It is not about the money. It's the public service aspect. Absolutely, I think it has qualities of redemption. The city gets a second chance. I get a second chance.

The challenge, really, on any new film is to try to avoid that and achieve a few moments that aren't cliche.

The last kiss is given to the void.

A risk is a chance you take; if it fails you can recover. A gamble is a chance taken; if it fails, recovery is impossible.

This is Life, not Heaven you don't have to be perfect

If you find out what it is you love to do and give your whole life to it, then there is no contradiction, and in that state your being is your doing.

Astrology is not an art, it is a disease.

the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.

Every religion has its dignity ... in freedom of expression there are limits.