I am fairly embraced by the Hollywood community, and I love making movies and I love acting, but I'm not real crazy about the Hollywood system. So the fact that they embrace me is a shock to me because I tell them to kiss my ass all the time. I don't understand why they haven't thrown me out on my ear. The other thing is I don't participate much. I have very few friends within the movie community. I hang out with some guys I've known forever. They're all broke and eat me out of house and home. But I stay home mostly and I don't go to the parties. Maybe that preserves me.

Man, I was drowning in sadness. And Angelina, she lifted me right up out of there.

I can't sit through plays and musical theatre. I just want to run up onstage and mess up their hair and turn over the furniture.

I don't think anybody chooses to be an underdog.

I write songs on guitar and that's about how good of a guitar player I am. I can write songs on it.

I'm not sure that I'm really relevant as a director anymore. Or as a writer, either, to tell you the truth.

If someone is talking to you and tells you that you ought to do something, and you can tell they mean it, those are the scary people. Those are the people you want to watch out for.