If masturbation is a crime then I should be on death row.

One of the great things that you should never do that I learned from John Malkovich is to never judge your characters.

I want to be radical on the inside, but not on the outside.

If you are an incredibly reactive person and you are working on your lowest level, and if you continuously give into your dark side and are angry, and screaming, and breaking things, and you do that for hours and hours on end, you are going to be incredibly exhausted. That's just the way life is.

Sometimes - this is a tough one - not everyone can handle the truth. Sometimes you have to take a beat. But if you can take that beat, and take the high road, it'll serve you in the long run.

HBO does something that most networks don't do which is give a show a chance to find their voice.

When I was growing up, I was always on stage but I loved other things.