I realized that it was great to have a job, but it didn't have anything remotely to do with what I was striving for, so why was I doing it?

Yeah, in every film that I've been lucky enough to do with Tim, there's always some form of torture, and the nails were Tim's idea. They were the length of the fingers and stuff, but it was okay because I had a troop of people who would help me go to the bathroom. They had to have treatment afterwards but they're okay now. That is true.

Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.

An actor needs to be not remotely anywhere close to in control, and a filmmaker has to be totally in control.

I can't stand not being able to joke around on set, so I have to.

If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.

It's a great honor that something that you took part in creating becomes this forever object.