Jackass: The Movie is great. I think it's in the tradition of physical comedy, which I'm really interested in. Its relationship to gravity, and how gravity acts on the body

Somebody like Mailer brings to that role everything that he stands for. The types of characters that I gravitate towards, the types of icons, tend to have a heavy physicality in that way.

I don't think my work is so strange. It's just a matter of having the discipline to go the whole way with an idea, to stretch it as far as it can go.

A lot of my work has to do with not allowing my characters to have an ego in a way that the stomach doesn't have an ego when it's wanting to throw up. It just does it

I'm less interested in skin than in fascia -- connective tissue.

A lot of these angles are really about trying to mimic broadcast sports angles in order to anchor the scene, to sort of normalize it before it becomes abstracted.

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it shor

You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it's humorous, all the attention to it, because it's hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that's happened to me.

This is the holy reasoning of love; it draws no license from grace, but rather feels the strong constraints of gratitude leading it to holiness.

Libya as a country is a relatively new concept. The period of Libya as a modern nation really starts after World War II.

Men who leave their money to be distributed by others are pie-faced mutts.

Dhoni has the respect of all other playing. nations. I've found him to be a really strong. leader

There is only one real comfort and it’s not a feeling. It is the comfort of oneness.

Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.

If the length of your life is much shorter than the story of your life, this means that you have lived your life so fully!

We cleave to the past too much in Germany. All of our German art is too bogged down in the conventional... I think more highly of a free person who consciously puts convention aside.