I know I have trouble watching my own films.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

Surround yourself with good people who encourage and love you. There are always ups and downs, no matter how successful you are.

I have to chase down the most scientifically efficient way to get the golf ball in the hole.

I have an expensive hobby: buying homes, redoing them, tearing them down and building them up the way they want to be built. I want to be an architect.

If corporate leaders and their acolytes are not slaves to some meritorious social purpose, they run the risk of being enslaved by their own ignoble appetites.

I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else.

I needed to be myself and find my own identity.

'The Sopranos' all came down to the writing. I wouldn't have been on for as long as I was if the writing weren't so good.

Not every town can or should be saved.

I was a monkey child. I was like a clown.

Organizations talk about spending their lives firefighting - dealing with the next problem without having the bandwidth to deal with what is down the pipeline. I think most of the poor have that problem.

I'm definitely active in the community down there in Charleston.

What I think happens, and that you have to acknowledge though, is that a director uses a book as a launching pad for his own work and that's always very flattering.

An actor can be as talented as another, but if he doesn't stick to what the director's intentions are, it all falls down. I adore working with actors.

It's a question of trying to take down by dictation what's already there. I'm not making something, I'm trying to hear it.

A woman who wants to go places needs to bring her own ladder.

I'm basically a songwriter, man. Songwriters are down in the fine print, you know? And I really enjoy that.

Every actor I ever meet goes, 'Ultimately I plan on having my own company and write and direct,' but yes, I too would love to write and direct a movie. I want to do a play, too. I want to do it all.

With my own comics, I try hard to get the vision in my head onto paper, to have one match the other as closely as possible. With the 'Airbender' comics, I'm working with someone else's vision, an already-established vision. I want to stay true to what's come before.