My greatest hope was to get discovered as a comedian and get on a sitcom.

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.

I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.

Like Lyndon Johnson, President Obama understands that timidity in a time of troubles is a prescription for failure.

For many years, Myanmar's leadership was largely shut out from the world of international diplomacy.

I have a car in Nebraska. When I bought it, they gave me a satellite radio, and there's an 'indie-rock' station. It's just nothing I'm interested in.

We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much.

No one ever has the resources they need.

Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame.

Wine is meant to be with food - that's the point of it.

I need to live my life in the light of their deaths. I need to live.

Peace of heart is the natural outcome of purity of heart.