But I think Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang really got that thing where, if a movie reads really funny and then has some dramatic or violent or sinister stuff in it, you can't forget that primarily it has to be even funnier than you read it or that other stuff doesn't work.

I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb.

Give me a scotch, I'm starving.

Discipline for me is about respect. It's not even about self-respect; it's about respect for life and all it offers.

I think life changes every year. This is just a little more comfortable.

Smoking dope and smoking coke, you are rendered defenseless. The only way out of that hopeless state is intervention.

I don't like words coming out of a character's mouth that I adore because not only is he a little bit duplicitous but he's kind of practical in the way he thinks, and he thinks in terms of everyone's humanity and how quickly we can go against what we think we meant when we said it or what we believe or blah, blah, blah.