With your own hands you can achieve much

The Japanese bureaucracy is unique. It is also very powerful, although it is now the object of so much criticism. Many of Japan's brightest made it a pillar of strength and continuity.

But I did have two months off between Loser and the start of Prozac Nation. So, it was supposed to be Jason time, right? My time to enjoy myself away from movies.

When you're a pilot, and you know all the ways to survive an airplane crash and how low the chances are, you feel safer.

People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

I teach a lot - I teach at the UCLA and USC graduate film programs - and a lot of those projects are my students' projects that I act in or I do a cameo.

It's true that the question of Iraq divided Europe.

I do not love the money. What I do love is the getting of it ... What other interest can you suggest to me? I do not read. I do not take part in politics. What can I do?

Five minutes after we die, we'll know exactly how much we should have given rather than kept.

I cannot believe how fine I am with being bald.

No matter whether you are a physician, a teacher, or a clergyman, if you can give increase of life to others and make them sensible of that fact, they will be attracted to you, and you will get rich.