Then I did Japanese Death Poem. I played seven or eight different characters. It’s the most challenging thing I’ve ever done on stage.

Well, our songwriting process is pretty collective.

I was a bad boy as a child.

Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.

I have a jaundiced eye but a young mind.

We had no idea… I’m thumbing through a magazine one day and I see Kangaroo Jack, and I see that’s how it is. It’s all about the kangaroo.

My office address and email address are somewhat public info at this point. It was by this method I was contacted for TV Road Trip.

Men still have to be governed by deception.

You’re raising a kid and you give it food and shelter and, most importantly, you give it the feeling that it’s special. I think people react to celebrities like that — I mean, they treat...

I guess I work well with others I handle younger actors well.

I would always fall down the big main staircase in our house. My favorite thing in the world was to pretend to be horribly killed at the top of it, and to fall dramatically down...

If all I ever wrote about was inner city freaks, I think it would be dishonest.

We give each other a hard time, but no pranks.

I’m like, ‘What world am I living in?’ Aren’t movies made to have something to say? Why make a movie if you don’t have something to say? What are you doing it for? Are you...

You can either look at things in a brutal, truthful way that’s depressing, or you can screw around and have fun.

And then I bought my own horse, which I had until it died.

True Yankees are born, not made.

It was the desire to do the complete thing. I only took taking acting lessons because my whole thing, really, was to direct. But my first jobs were acting jobs.

The blues and jazz will live forever… So will the Delta and the Big Easy.

This music isn’t Top 40, we really stand out from anyone.

I can promote until I am blue in the face, but ultimately nobody knows what makes a hit.

Dobie was so well written and so ahead of its time.

Physical comedy is my favorite thing in the world to do.

I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I’ve actually been painting longer than I’ve been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself.

Any idiot can get laid when they’re famous. That’s easy. It’s getting laid when you’re not famous that takes some talent.

I don’t want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man’s game.

I hope that they enjoy the movie. Don’t be critical. Don’t expect to get the same feelings you got when you watched the series when you were 10 years old. Let your kids see it...

It might be something in the actual structure of the paintings that is starting to come around, finally. And that’s exciting to me.

Once you’re a winner, you can give all sorts of reasons why you’re a winner. Of course, you could all those same reasons to explain why a show fails.

Every day is intense and alive, whether it’s travel, work, even down time, which there is so little of.

All my life, since I was 16, I’ve been wondering where that next job was gonna come from.

They put it on the page because it sounded good or it looked good or they read it in a book somewhere that this is how you structure a script or something, and they just...

Love is full of anxious fears.

The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.

Everyone’s a millionaire where promises are concerned.

So the thing that’s beautiful about the Rolleiflex is that I open the camera up from the top and put my face in and that the camera’s all about composition and all about light.

I’ve been trying to take this journey over the last four years of getting away from playing manipulative and villainous characters and playing characters that are affected by what happens to them as opposed to...

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry – except that he wasn’t as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

People don’t want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That’s why they watch soap operas.

The Professional Children’s School, it’s for professional kids, so if you wanted to ditch, you could just write, Audition on a note and leave. I didn’t really like school all that much.

The writers and producers always have an idea, then they cast the role and the instrument starts to tell them how to play the music.

I don’t think you ever leave Star Trek for good.

As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don’t get to do when I’m just acting.

The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved – as absurd and extreme as they may initially seem – must stay utterly rooted in their own...

You can’t be pregnant in leotards, and this is the last chance for us to get our bodies into the shape of concert dancers and capture it with the magic of film.

We do not learn first what to talk about and then what to say about it.

I’m not the most talkative guy in the world.

I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager.

Tarantino’s stuff in its inception was all about finding a way for him to break into Hollywood.

To me, White Boy Shuffle is sort of like Catcher in the Rye, the story is so universal.