There's a certain delusional quality that all successful people have to have.

I think with movies I am really connecting to the Joseph Campbell idea of the collective unconscious.

Coming from sitcom television and coming from music you burn up every single second. You don't leave anything there. You burn it up and you pass out when you walk off stage, so I took that concept into acting.

The execs don't care what color you are. They care about how much money you make. Hollywood is not really black or white. It's green.

I’m a student of patterns. At heart, I’m a physicist. I look at everything in my life as trying to find the single equation, the theory of everything.

The value of a story isn't that it just has a narcotic effect. It's that it awakens something in you that makes you want to think, that makes you talk to other people, that stirs something that makes you examine the story that eventually turns into self-examination.

The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.