I don't really manage my time. I really just wait until I'm inspired to do something. And when I'm inspired to do something, it just happens.

There's no better way to learn something than to learn it in front of an audience. Your terror drives you.

Any type of humor can be transferred to the screen, as long as there's clarity. The audience wants to know just what they're supposed to be feeling, when they're supposed to laugh.

When the person beside you is making you alert and keen and the idea of being with anyone else is not imaginable.

My fear represented the failure of the human system. It is a sad truth of our creation: Something is amiss in our design, there are loose ends of our psychology that are simply not wrapped up. My fears were the dirty secrets of evolution. They were not provided for, and I was forced to construct elaborate temples to house them.

Nothing I do is done by popular demand.

I try not to think about legacy because it is all ­folly. If you study history, even recent history, you'll find many people who were quite significant in their time but are completely forgotten.