I've gotten incredibly lucky with the people I've gotten to work with. It's made my mind better, and it's made me a better person.

I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.

Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.

I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.

I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.

Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.

I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem.

What I did have was an incredible amount of belief in myself.

I was really surprised when I started working and realized that you're actually on your own, a lot of the time. It makes you really responsible, as an actor.

I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.

And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

Form follows function straight to hell.

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

To one, science is an exalted goddess; to another it is a cow which provides him with butter.

A man agrees with god as a raindrop agrees with the storm

Truthless times need timeless truths.

There's always been a struggle with filmmakers between art and industry, and you have to find a balance

I try to hold it in until I get on the ice, then in front of the net sometimes I'll pass gas.

We refuse love, and reject society, in so far as it seems, in our own perverse imagination, to imply some obscure kind of humiliation

Actual patriotism has to do with loving a place enough to try and improve it.