Dogs are the broccaflower of the animal kingdom.

When I was a kid I ate sports books up, like "Winners Never Quit" by Phil Pepe. That was like my bible.

If you're smart, you'll always be humble. You can learn all you want, but there'll always be somebody who's never read a book who'll know twice what you know.

I don't believe in a conspiracy to hide the existence of extraterrestrial life.

Whenever somebody says they need an angle for their story I always fear that they've got an idea and they want me to fit into it or they want me to come up with an idea myself or I'm supposed to be more revealing than I've been, and to me it just sounds like something I don't want to do.

A lot of times passion projects or films are difficult to make because they don't have proven directors attached to them.

I'm a big Philip Roth fan. I think "American Pastoral" is the great American novel of the past 30 to 40 years. It's a novel about what happened in the 1960s, and I think America is still dealing with what happened then. It's devastatingly sad.