History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.

If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning.

If you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane.

I think we're in an age starved for genuine experiences, instead of cathartic phony experiences through the media, structured, engineered experiences. And those are the fast food, the masturbation of experience. They don't really exhaust any aspect of ourselves; they don't make us any stronger.

Demons are former celebrities who prey on their own insecurities.

To a certain extent everybody has a certain sort of way of being a persona that they learn how to be when they're really little. They figure out that if they're really funny, or really pretty, or if they work really, really hard or are really smart, then that's what's going to get them by. That is what is going to make people like them.

Screenwriters get paid a hell of a lot more money but their level of frustration seems to be so high that I don't want that.