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

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

I'm not used to feeling like I belong where I am.

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.

Violent ground-acquisition games such as football are in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war.

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.

Give me a scotch, I'm starving.