You know, sometimes I feel like I walk around with a target on my back with the films I make.

Anyway, I just haven't been able to find any humanity in any Republican candidate ever in my entire life.

Ever since I was a kid, I just loved those comedians on TV who would just have fun with the language.

Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth.

You learn real early to make a film and then duck, and basically that's how I go about it.

It's always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone's seen the last one.

I'm me, I live from film to mouth.

Nick plays a corrupt politician, which is kind of a redundant statement.

Well, visual language is another boring discussion about the nature of film.

You know, sometimes I feel like I walk around with a target on my back with the films I make.

It's part of the general global hypnotism to accept lies as the new truth.

So one of the most unique things on screen in American movies today is everyday behavior.

You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.

You know our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.

Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have and its often only found in moments of truth.

I have lots and lots of party clothes. I mean real party clothes.

Reading a script is usually as exciting as reading a boilerplate legal document, so when you read one that makes you feel as if you're seeing the movie, you know it's something different.

When I say I miss school I mean my friends and the fun. Not the school.

It was not really a career choice that I had to make. It was something I knew right from the beginning. I had to be an actress... period.

I personally wouldn't want my second album to sound like my first; it might sound very rocky or hard rock - and that wouldn't be melancholy. So if people think my music is melancholic, then so be it. It's meant to be uplifting, and I'm just basically saying what needs to be said.

When you're 11 or 12 years old, you can get so swept up in a book that you start to believe that the fantasy is reality. I think when you have a giant crush when you're in fifth grade, it becomes your whole world. It's like being underwater; everything is different.

One of the big breakthroughs, I think for me, was reading Robert A. Heinlein's four rules of writing, one of which was, 'You must finish what you write.' I never had any problem with the first one, 'You must write' - I was writing since I was a kid. But I never finished what writing.

Well, I think it's pretty much established that I just didn't have any interest in coaching in the pros.

It comes up over and over and over again that a ten times increase in the weight-oriented density of batteries or the volume metric, the space-oriented density of batteries, would enable so many other moonshots that that's one that just constantly comes up over and over again, and we will start that moonshot if we can find a great idea.

I do have ambition - I can dress up for a premiere, get in a limousine, but it's not my life. My life is wearing jeans and tennis shoes and travelling on the metro. I have to do that because otherwise my acting is going to be false.

The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.

Music's cyclical. There's always that next generation that always comes along.

I like to express certain things that happen in my life, the joy of spring, the birds singing and young babies coming into the world. You know, the whole thing as well as the part I'm not happy with, the sad part.

The most important part of the process of mourning is regularly reciting kaddish in a synagogue. Kaddish is a doxology, which Jewish tradition has mandated children to recite daily in a synagogue during the year of mourning for a deceased parent and then on the anniversary of his or her death thereafter.

Bowie's been a huge influence on me.

Compared with members of other nations of Western civilization, the ordinary American is a rationalistic being, and there are close relations between his moralism and his rationalism. Even romanticism, transcendentalism, and mysticism tend to be, in the American culture, rational, pragmatic and optimistic.

I am hoping that in this year of the family we will go into our families and reconcile differences.

I loved practical jokes. I loved being goofy on the playground, and I loved doing silly cartoons, but I was not this subversive little delinquent. I am an Eagle Scout, after all.

I know it's good when I see a smaller film get recognized because it means more publicity for them. When you start producing and directing the movies become a little more like your children.

When Jack White called and wanted me to do a video and play mandolin with The Raconteurs, I didn't know anything about The Raconteurs at that time.

Jokes are better than war. Even the most aggressive jokes are better than the least aggressive wars. Even the longest jokes are better than the shortest wars.

Our government is printing money, and it's degrading the living standard of every person in America. It's the cause of frustration, anger, and confusion.

One of the reasons why Australia and Canada have support for migration is because they control the numbers.

First of all, Craig Lucas' work, any of it, for any actor, is such good material. It's so alive in such a poetic, yet human way. It's theatrical, but it lets you emotionally connect with the characters.