Don't buy into the corporate mythology that's been rammed down our throats for all these years.

If you're looking at things with the right set of eyes, people are endlessly fascinating. And then, of course, if you look at it the wrong way, then the whole world is horrible and tedious and boring. That's the battle, really--to keep looking at the world in the right way.

I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American.

I was raised Catholic until I was old enough to say no.

I think any actor can probably identify with being a professional liar. You don't always look at yourself that way, but I know a lot of days I do.

Kitsch is more dangerous than it looks when taken to the extreme.

When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.