If you chase fame, you make bad choices. Being famous isn't interesting.

Fame is something I think happens as a result of trying to do good work. If you're trying to be famous, your work usually suffers.

I love New York. It's kind of perfect. I'm in New York part of the time and in L.A. part of the time. That's always been a goal, to be bicoastal in a real way.

I think we need to tell stories that reflect our world.

I did Chekhov's Three Sisters once. Two months in, I remember going, "Human beings shouldn't be forced to do or watch this play every night." It's so dark and so bottomless.

Normally when you're promoting something a lot, sometimes you get tired.

Though there is something cruel about being in Hawaii and you have a computer in front of you the whole time.

I always go to bed thinking I'm the luckiest guy in the world.

There's a logic to dreams that doesn't necessarily follow linear narrative. You don't know why things happen, it's your subconscious pushing you, to give you information.

Unless you hit your television with a sledgehammer, you're not going to be able to be an individual.

I've always been pretty happy with my style. I've been wearing tapered jeans since 1980 something.

Love is always reminding me that there is something else left to do

It is considered as conduct when it comes into exact understanding.

Any man's a fool who lets himself be a wage-earning slave, today.

A strong ant is better than a weak lion.

There’s no need to look back. What’s behind you is smaller than what’s in front you.

I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warner Brothers, Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes cartoons.

Success is not a resting-place - it is a launching pad.

Laugh till you weep. Weep till there's nothing left but to laugh at your weeping. In the end it's all one.

I wondered what else in my life I perceived to be wrong or difficult instead of exploring to understand the true purpose.

The superiority of the American system is eloquently proved by the pressure of people who want to crash our borders.