It's like I have a loaded gun in my mouth and I like the taste of metal

There is unpanned gold in every soul you run into, no matter what walk of life they are from.

I saw School of Rock, and I was like, why haven't I worked with Richard Linklater already? Then by the time I got him I was like, I'm really pissed off I feel like you owe me some retroactive swag. He gave me the 10-year anniversary "Dazed and Confused" T-shirt, which I still wear with relish.

My old man had a philosophy: peace means having a bigger stick than the other guy.

I never know when the seeds are being laid, I'm just like, "Wow, that's a pretty cool scene. Is that? Are we laying seeds here?"

With a terrible script you hustle and try to make it better. But with a good script it can be trouble because you rest on your laurels, so to speak, you think it's going to translate easily.

I walk by studio heads and they actually look and put their hand out now, like maybe I should be on their radar.