Acting is more fun than writing. Writing is harder, more like having a term paper.

Hansel is certainly about comfort, while still sort of having a peacock principle of wanting to attract attention.

We worked together with Wes Anderson writing a couple more movies together: Rushmore [1998] and Tenenbaums.

You can't get too attached to any one shampoo. And conditioner, also.

It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I'm usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it.

You know how they say we only use 10 percent of our brains? I think we only use 10 percent of our hearts.

I think of Terrence Malick's movie Days of Heaven - one of Richard Gere's first movies - you can push pause on almost any image in the movie and it looks like a painting.