I tend to turn down roles that are too much like me, what I think is most like me anyhow, because I'm me all the time and I'm sick of it.

I make little movies, you know, they need all the help that they can get.

I had been to New Mexico many times. I loved it. It's a very exotic, interesting, severely crazy environment. I don't know if I could live there all year. It's such an intense place.

The high desert has an effect on people. The place has a way of swallowing you up.

Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.

As you get older, I think everyone feels that, no matter what the job: to try a hand at running the business as opposed to simply being an employee.

Most of us... are simply just trying to get through the day. And wait for those times in their life that are markers, that put things into relief. That's why we like movies and books so much.

In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.

When wild the head-wind beat, Thy sovereign Will commanding Bring them who dare to fly To a safe landing.

I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously.

I think people tend to live, whether they like it or not, influenced by what's next door to them.

The true adventurer sees his glass as half full even when there are things swimming in it.

Though the people support the government, the government should not support the people.

I feel that music is more flexible than language and your song, or "piece" is only as flexible as your least flexible component.

I wish, I wish I were a poisonous bacterium.

When you look at the beginning of the actual war, it's not hard to recognize that the Pakistanis were the ones to attack.

A true outlaw finds the balance between the passion in his heart and the reason in his mind. The outcome is the balance of might and right.

Patience is the art of caring slowly.

I have my own personal opinions, but they're just that.

If you have to lie, cheat, steal, obstruct and bully to get your point across, it must not be a point capable of surviving on its own merits.

The day you chose to leave me it rained constantly in truth I swore the rain to be the tears of cuspids eyes.