I never had a plan. I just sort of ambled along, doing exactly what I wanted every day of my life.

I never think of myself as a celebrity - or even an actor, actually. I think of myself as a writer-director.

Telling someone with depression to pull themselves together is about as useful as telling someone with cancer to just stop having cancer

If you pay attention to good critics, you have to listen to the bad. So you have to ignore them all really. You can't just cherry pick the glowing ones.

Be happy. It really annoys negative people.

I think everyone has the ability to be loved.

Pol Pot - he rounded up anybody he thought was intellectual and had them executed. And how he told someone was intellectual or not was whether they wore glasses. If they're that clever, take them off when they see him coming!