Kids are life's only guaranteed, bona fide upside surprise.

I just know that sameness, repetition, and conceptualizing are the acting craft's adversaries, and it seems more intelligent to start off within a framework where those things are, to some degree, taken out of your hands.

When they say I'm a great actor, I close my ears because it's not good for you to think that way.

Women are sort of like motorcycle gangs with me. They get really shy and polite. I don't know why.

I don't believe in God now. I can still work up an envy for someone who has a faith. I can see how that could be a deeply soothing experience.

I resist all established beliefs. My religion basically is to be immediate, to live in the now.

Before I moved into the mainstream of American movies, I wrote a script as an experiment. I wanted to get very far away from the clichés about the three-act play - structure, development.