"I'm so critical of myself. I'm actually really, really proud of the film. It's really cool to see a movie at Sundance because everybody is so supportive."

"What's sad is that there is an addictive quality to that, to believing your own hype to allowing yourself to become validated by others and no longer by yourself. That's the danger of celebrity."

"I've been allowed to grow over the past twenty years. I've managed to avoid being trapped in one moment of my career and for that, I'm very thankful."

"With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two more hours of this.'"

"We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital... with God's creation. And we need to administer and work that very carefully."

"Religion is the last refuge of human savagery."

"And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you're going to repeat it and if you're burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don't get it, you're missing the whole point."