I just like to act and write and produce. To me, making movies is the ultimate goal.

It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do.

Germany's amongst my top three places in the world I'd like to live.

I want to meet the man who saw a turtle and said, "People will LOVE the ninja version of that."

I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.

If you're trying to make someone happy, you gotta try and make them happy.

New Orleans is like the bad-kid island in 'Pinocchio.'

The great thing about 'Allen Gregory' is that we try to make it really questionable that the things he says have happened, have really happened. We like that ambiguity.

I don't like to say mean things about people's hard work.

I mean, I find things that happened in real life to be the funniest - things that you observe instead of crazy abstract things, you know.

I mean, being shot in slow motion doing cocaine by Martin Scorsese is, like, maybe every actor's dream. Nothing will compare to it. Except maybe having kids.

The laughter of the world is merely loneliness pathetically trying to reassure itself.

Whoever is to be wise despises himself. Only the ignorant trust their own judgement.

Thus far the mighty mystery of motherhood is this: How is it that doing it all feels like nothing is ever getting done.

Nothing is too great and nothing is too small to commit into the hands of the Lord.

I know of no title that I deem more honorable than that of Professor of the Harvard Law School.

Drawing and Drinking Coffe

I like playing make-believe. And my brothers do it with me, so its fun. Its almost better than chocolate ice cream.

Man up and add a tux to your wardrobe. Just find one you like and get it well-tailored to your own measurements.

The atonement chapter [from the book Saving Calvinism] shows how there are real riches in Reformed theology that most Christians today have no idea about.

New York City has fantastic restaurants and, unlike London, a lot of the best restaurants are relatively cheap.