The only way we’ll ever know what it’s like to be you is if you work your best at being you as often as you can, and keep reminding yourself: That’s where home is.

Love can be seeing that here we are and there's this world here.

While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucille, died. My father had already died, but I always had some attachment to our big family while she was alive. It seems strange to say now that I felt so lonely, yet I did.

Well it's hard to be yourself, it's the hardest job there is.

The way financing for independent movies goes is great. You get the money from the guy who's actually doing the distribution in France. You say, "Do you want a piece of this movie?" And he's got to sell this movie to get his money back. That's the brains of it; that's the genius of this financing. "You want Germany? Give us a million dollars and you've got Germany."

I'm just a potato that won't quit. I'm a potato with some legs. Some have eyes, I've got legs.

Somewhere there's a score being kept, so you have an obligation to live life as well as you can, be as engaged as you can.