I remember staying up all night waiting to see the first screening of Cape Fear because you knew that every time Robert DeNiro had a performance it was going to be revelatory. Then DeNiro hit this place, he seemed like he was done with the emotional cost of impaling himself like that, and he dedicated himself to comedy.

I like [that] there's a certain inherent drama to those jobs that is exciting to tell stories about and it's still real life. I'm a little less interested in the current fad of being obsessed with superheroes and things that are so out of the box.

My relationship to reality has been so utterly skewed for so long that I don't even notice it any more. It's just my reality.

I kill flies, I eat meat, you know, whatever.

It is quite rare to find people who are really dedicated to a level of excellence. Most of us are really quite lazy most of the time.

When I woke up I was naked. I have this one oddball idiosyncrasy: Sometimes in my sleep I take off all my clothes.

If you don't give inspiration an opportunity, it will never arrive.