I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.

Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.

I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.

If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.

I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously.

I don't play villains, I play very interesting people

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

Give me a window and I'll stare out it.

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

There's a voice inside you that tells you what you should do.

I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.

As far as I know, the guys at Pixar are opposed to a Monsters, Inc. sequel.

I hated Woody Woodpecker and Scooby-Doo, but I was a cartoon freak.

Social Security's future has gotten worse, and each year we delay reform adds to the cost we are pushing off onto our children.

Lady, I got buddies who died face down in the muck so that you and I could enjoy this family restaurant!

But I'm not as bad as Al Pacino - he doesn't even know what month it is half the time when he's working.

If you want to direct, you've got to work.

I'd like to come back because I really miss doing situation comedy.

When I was a kid, I loved Popeye, but the old ones, the real old ones.