I'd mortgage any house for art.

I'm not good at chatting right away. Women have to be very patient with me, I suppose.

You look at what interests a person and then you formulate what their opinions are, in terms of how they see the world, and how they see love and life.

Anybody that wants to walk out that door and leave home for a few months and rely on themselves instead of fate might have some interesting stories to tell.

I had done chorus before in school, but I was only trying for an easy A. I was a bass going 'dum dum da doo wop.

In my experience, the best directors I've worked with hired people for a purpose. They hire them with trust. There's not many notes. There's confidence and support.

When my senior prom was happening, I was in Malta filming 'Troy.

I think the only thing harder for a parent is having to sit down and watch you do a dying scene. I've died in three films, and my mom begs me, "Just tell me you don't die at the end."

I grew up on a farm where we had one radio station and it was all country.

I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it’s been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.

There's big studio films I didn't want to do. I didn't want to go through the hoops and ladders. I wouldn't have been able to work with the directors I've worked with if I did those studio films.

Public success flourishes when we uphold private order.

And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die Lift not your hands to it for help - for it As impotently moves as you or I.

The more you read, the more you will write. The better the stuff you read, the better the stuff you will write.

Martial art is a form of expression, an expression from your inner self to your hands and legs.

Many biblical verses are like inkblot tests, revealing more about us than about the text in question.

We don't have enough words for photography. Can you imagine writers having only one word for writing?

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

Stand aside, and try not to catch fire if I shed sparks of genius.

Obviously I'm a big fan of 'South Park,' but it gets tiring at times when there's so much of it.

You can't beat a nice glass of Chardonnay after a really long, hard day.