I usually get freaked out if I'm in a situation where a lot of people recognise me at once.

What's "God"? Well, you know, when you want something really bad and you close your eyes and you wish for it? God's the guy that ignores you.

Do you think god stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he's created here on earth?

Communication is the key, and it's one thing I had to learn-to talk to the actors. I was so involved with the visual and technical aspects that I would forget about the actors.

Just because people want to eat the burger doesn't mean they want to meet the cow.

I talked with Quentin about where the character came from, and he told me Kansas City. I don't know how somebody talks from Kansas City, so I made him from New York.

Really interesting things come because you don't know what the rules are, what you can and can't do.

I can't relate to 99% of humanity.

I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that.

Every day's an adventure when I step out of my door. That's why I usually wear a hat and keep my head low.

I don't tend to think of the characters i play as losers. I like the struggles that people have, people who are feeling like they don't fit into society, because I still sort of feel that way.

String of fate brings two people together and it is love's job to keep them there.

It’s a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.

I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff.

I played guitar. I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.

It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such.

I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.

I say women exhibit the most exalted virtue when they depart from the domestic circle and enter on the concerns of their country, of humanity, and of their G-d!

Books are the windows of the truth, but they are not the door; they point out things and yet they do not impart them. It is within that we should write, think, and speak, not merely on paper.

There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.

I believe that the black-and-white photograph, or rather the gray zones in the black-and-white photograph, stand for this territory that is located between life and death.