My report card always said, 'Jim finishes first and then disrupts the other students'.

Hysterical in The Mask; funny yet moving in The Truman Show.

I love the idea that 'a person is a person no matter how small'.

What’s yours? How will you serve the world? What do they need that your talent can provide? That’s all you have to figure out.

I think that there's a natural attraction to enigmatic characters, people that have decided to make a decision in their lives to live differently than everyone else. That's a very attractive quality that also happens to be good for filmmaking, people that have their own point of view and aren't looking at things the same way as everyone else.

That peace that we're after, lies somewhere beyond personality, beyond the perception of others, beyond invention and disguise, even beyond effort itself. You can join the game, fight the wars, play with form all you want, but to find real peace, you have to let the armor fall.

I don't believe in this fairy tale of staying together for ever. Ten years with somebody is enough. In ten years, you can give a lot of love.