"I've been at the funerals of a lot of people in my neighborhood. Sometimes when I sit back and relax, I think about that and just blank out."

"I'm me. I'm just out there being myself. I like having fun. But at the same time, I bring everybody together. So I'm really -- or I try to be -- like the glue of the team."

"And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude."

"I've always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions."

"The single life is not one I willingly chose for myself."

"My view is that if there is no evidence for it, then forget about it. An agnostic is somebody who doesn’t believe in something until there is evidence for it, so I’m agnostic."

"But I could be wrong."

"I don't want to believe. I want to know."

"The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself."

"We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."

"I hate committing myself to anything. It's probably the lack of discipline, honestly. I'm probably a spoiled brat worried about getting my way every time."

"I mean, I can get things done if I need to, but I can really be completely irresponsible and procrastinate until the very, very, very bitter end. In fact, sometimes I work better under pressure."

"Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny."

"I want to be a big, fleshy voluptuous woman with curves. I want a big bum, but I don't have one."

"For me, gratitude is the only attitude."

"I haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before."

"I make films for myself, first and foremost, just because it is such a personal experience, and it's something I really have to want to do and feel connected to."

"Intimacy starts with a relationship with yourself, an understanding of who you are."

"People say I'm cocky, but am I supposed to sit here and be insecure and not know where my future's going or not realize that moviemaking is the greatest thing to happen to me?"

"I have gratitude. I know myself better. I feel more capable than ever. And as far as the physicality of it, I feel better at 40 than I did at 25."

"I never felt I had to prove myself with anything."

"I've been to the Titanic in a yellow submarine and the North Pole in a Russian nuclear ice breaker."

"To me, money is a commodity that a person must have to function, not a goal in itself."

"My first time I directed a play was 'No Exit,' a play set in a subway."