It doesn't matter what part I play, I try and commit myself 100 percent.

What's "God"? Well, you know, when you want something really bad and you close your eyes and you wish for it? God's the guy that ignores you.

Do you think god stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he's created here on earth?

Communication is the key, and it's one thing I had to learn-to talk to the actors. I was so involved with the visual and technical aspects that I would forget about the actors.

Just because people want to eat the burger doesn't mean they want to meet the cow.

I talked with Quentin about where the character came from, and he told me Kansas City. I don't know how somebody talks from Kansas City, so I made him from New York.

Really interesting things come because you don't know what the rules are, what you can and can't do.

I can't relate to 99% of humanity.

I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that.

Every day's an adventure when I step out of my door. That's why I usually wear a hat and keep my head low.

I don't tend to think of the characters i play as losers. I like the struggles that people have, people who are feeling like they don't fit into society, because I still sort of feel that way.

Men drive off bridges and drink too much because of women like you.

I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

Focus group research has created a composite No-Man who resembles no-one anyone has ever met.

I worry that as the problem-solving power of our technologies increases, our ability to distinguish between important and trivial or even non-existent problems diminishes.

Art itself is female - it is full of graciousness, cadence, color, rhythm. It's full of love and grace.

Everything in the universe is created from something, which in turn is created from nothing.

But many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. That does not lessen their beauty.

I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old.

Democracy is a life, and involves continual struggle.

Grasses are misty, The waters silent- A tranquil evening.