No single person who has ever lived will be able to tell you what happens. Period. Nobody's right and nobody's wrong.

The audience creates its own personality, I've noticed, in the first five minutes. They will either be generous, funny, silly, withholding, academic, analytical, grudging. And I'm fascinated with how that gets constructed, because it happens right away.

A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into that rut of production.

I believe that the purpose of death is the release of love.

You know the reason I love the stars is because we can't hurt them: we can't burn them, we can't melt them , we can't make them overflow, we can't flood them or burn them up—so we keep reacing for them

Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.

I always feel like if someone has stage fright, I really try and say, "Listen, these people want you to succeed, they want to have a good evening. They want to see something really great. They don't want to see something crappy. They don't. They want to be at something really special."