Like everybody, I've had a lot of pain in my life and I'm a work in progress. You must have a true desire to see the world from a different point of view, and that comes with growing up.

The life of a character doesn't just exist between action and cut.

I don't take a scene or word for granted.

Tarantino and Jackson is like Scorsese and DeNiro, and their silent communication.

I'm not good at telling a joke, but I can say a line in a certain way that makes people uncomfortable because they don't know whether to laugh or not, and I love that comedy.

The guy who kills 38 people is not the guy you'd want to have over at Thanksgiving.

If you ever get the opportunity to work with Quentin Tarantino, you had better believe that it will be an experience of extremes.

But probably my favorite music, believe it or not, is sad music.

'The Portrait of Dorian Grey' beautifully articulates how the altruistic part of ourselves clashes with our essentially narcissistic state.

I aimlessly travel, meaning I have no agenda other than to get small in the world, be quiet and observe people.

Unfortunately, when you're the king of the hill, there's really only one way to go, and that's down.

Never base your destiny on things you cannot control and have no power to change.

My daddy has a chain five miles long, on each link a heart for a lover he has lost.

Above and behind them the Dipper turned on its great handle as if to pour night itself out onto the dreaming continent and each of its seven stars gleamed from between the fitful clouds.

Look!" She pointed, a smile on her face. "Wild pigs!""They have razor-sharp tusks, so don't try to hug one.

The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in 7 and a half fathom water, 2 miles from the shore, clean sand.

There are monasteries in Japan where they teach Zen with rules, more rules than you can imagine, and you might feel comfortable with that. I don't teach that type of Zen.

My career at Microsoft really was getting in the way of my cooking.

My parents raised me to never feel like I was entitled to success.That you have to work for it. You have to work so hard for it. And sometimes then you don't even get where you need to go.

All of us, consciously or unconsciously, set out to have the best possible love life. Valentine's Day simply shines a light on the degree to which that didn't - or hasn't yet - materialized.

I been through living for years. I just ain't dead yet.