If you then cast a somebody, playing a nobody is always an additional effort. But that was not the reason we cast him. It was because Ben Whishaw delivered exactly what I was hoping for.

I think ultimately one would say that the most difficult part of the Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer is the balancing of the main character. To get him being so ambivalent in his whole conception.

I get happy and I get sad, just like anybody elsebut they call this a disorder.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.

Here's a test you can try at home, Put a 2 year old in a playpen with an apple and a rabbit. If it plays with the apple and eats the rabbit, you've got a carnivore.

The world is a very, very, very big record. We just have to learn how to play it.

I'll be right here in my spot wit a lil more cash than I already got trippin off you cause you had your shot

Receding from grief, it seems necessary to retrace the same steps that brought us there.

I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.

I fell in love with the book [ Brief Interviews with Hideous Men] and always wanted to do something with and fought to get the rights, which was pretty fun and an incredible experience in itself.

I always try to attack the most honest issues I can in my comedy.

[Lionel Messi] is great in any position.