You always end up getting involved in things because of, you know, the strange things your life brings you into contact with.

When a butterfly flutters its wings in one part of the world, it can eventually cause a hurricane in another.

The more you do your homework, the more you're free to be intuitive. But you've got to put the work in.

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.

Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.

Sometimes we don't see certain things until we're ready to see them in a certain way.

When people come together too young, they try to become one person. As you get older, you realize that you don't want to become one person because then you lose the person you are.

Instead of telling the world what you're eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that's meaningful.

It's better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you.

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.

I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away.

The long years had taught him that everything worked itself out given enough time, and some things would always be the way fate wished them to be.

Truth is so rare. I wonder why it is and where you are?

One Christmas build-up tradition, however, has totally bypassed me - that of going up to town and 'doing a show.'

I would have liked to be a comedian in the '20s, or maybe even a comedian on the Mayflower and have a statue somewhere.

You got an all-out prize fight, you wait 'til the fight's over, one guy's left standing and that's how you know who's won.

The self is fundamentally an illusion arising as a reflection of the soul in matter, much as a clear lake at midnight reflects the moon.

Close a door, and you'd still feel a breeze through the window.

I'm worried about losing my hair. I think if I lost my hair, I'd lose a lot of parts. And I don't want to get fat. I'm always worried about that.

If we are to flourish as creative beings, if we are to grow into wholeness, we must bloom wherever we are planted.

I believe it is important for comedians to know who came before them.