"The reason I started writing movies was because I kept getting parts that I just kind of stepped into. I didn't have to do a lot of work and I ended up getting sort of bored."

"When I was a kid, I was always an athlete. I played a lot of sports. I played football, basketball, baseball and soccer."

"I'm kind of like the goofy number-seven guy in a lot of movies."

"If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead."

"Frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do."

"It's a funny thing because you look at the careers of other filmmakers, and you see them sort of slow down, and you realize, maybe this becomes harder to do as you get older. That's sort of a cautionary thing. I hope it doesn't happen to me."

"If governments let themselves be fully bound by the decisions of their parliaments without protecting their own freedom to act, a breakup of Europe would be a more probable outcome than deeper integration."

"All those years we'd spent learning these chops, and all those gigs in Germany where you'd play all night, and along comes punk. It has nothing to do with that. A lot of people went out of business."