One of my favorite movies of all time is Fargo.

I dont like quotes. You can quote me on that.

I make character judgements based on whether people like animals. Worship Satan, I'll still give you a chance. Hate dogs, we ain't friends.

Sometimes people tell me I'm a good guy. Thank God, I'd probably be a terrible woman

I play drums and guitar, I snowboard, I do martial arts and acrobatics. I go to the movies every Friday.

I do play the guitar, and I can sing, but just enough to carry a tune.

I was home-schooled for my entire high school experience, so I never went to prom.

I go crazy if I'm not working. I find it harder to have down time. I don't know what to do with myself. I need to be working on this job otherwise I go insane.

On film, it's really nice to see that transformation from the beginning, reading the script, to know where he starts and where he ends, and be able to plan for that.

Large-budget movies start to lose focus on the story and the actors, and it becomes purely about the visual, or CGI, or framing with the cranes, or whatever it may be.

I traveled to Berlin promoting something a few years back, and Berlin is absolutely my favorite city I've ever been to. I want desperately to film something there.

A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, "Why is there so much suffering?"Suzuki Roshi replied, "No reason.

Writing can be a long and winding road or a straightforward march to the finish.What matters is that you enjoy the journey.

A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Control your thoughts. Decide about that which you will think and concentrate upon. You are in charge of your life to the degree you take charge of your thoughts.

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.

All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.

Wish all my corpses would do that.

religion is poetry, - poetry is religion.

It amazes me that filmmakers will still film, and audiences will still watch, relationships so bankrupt of human feeling that the characters could be reading dialogue written by a computer.