I've never been into just really silly stuff.

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.

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly

When a child truly understands his grand potential, he looks to the stars not simply to make a wish but to chart a destination.

We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves.

A clash of doctrine is not a disaster, it is an opportunity.

There is nothing that strengthens the ego more than being right !

Every moment you are different because you are not-- and unless you are, the divine cannot happen to you. To whom can it happen? You are not there.

Cruelty will continue existing on the face of the Earth as long as we have not learned to put ourselves in the place of others.

But I didn’t realize then that the consequence of sin is that you have to trample on other people.

We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.

The very beautiful rarely love at all; those precious images are placed above the reach of the passions: Time alone is permitted to efface them.