I spend enough time onscreen looking hangdog and depressed.

The only pitch I have to movie people is the same as this one: Just give me $8 million. I'm not telling you what it's about and I'm not telling you who's in it.

If I do something for my kids, I get a medal, because most fathers don't.

It's a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them.

You can't answer a kid's question. A kid never accepts any answer. A kid never says, 'Oh, thanks. I get it.'... They just keep coming with more questions - why, why, why? - until you don't even know who the fk you are anymore at the end of the conversation. It's an insane deconstruction.

If you're older, you're smarter. I just believe that. If you're in an argument with someone older than you, you should listen to 'em ... even if they're wrong, their wrongness is rooted in more information than you have.

Most people are dead. Hitler. Ray Charles. Some other guys. But mostly those two.