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

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 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.

I play a lot of games on my iPhone. There is a game called Rat on a Scooter that I will promote as much as possible because it has brought me so much joy.

and the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.

When things are at their blackest, I say to myself, 'Cheer up, things could be worse.' And sure enough, they get worse.

You are what you read.

I'm not a lyric writer to make statements. What I enjoy doing is making paintings with lyrics, creating colorful images. I think that's more what entertainment and music should be.

The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment.

God is dead not because He doesn't exist, but because we live, play, procreate, govern, and die as though He doesn't.

One who is by nature daring and is suffering from poverty will not long be law-abiding. Indeed, any men, save those that are truly good, if their sufferings are very great, will be likely to rebel.

The savage hatred I feel for crowds is getting worse, natural enemies that they are of imagination and of thought.

Working with CGI is more like doing theater where your sort of imagining things. I didn't experience it as restrictive.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.