"To me, nothing feels more like being dead than being in your 20s and having no direction in your life."

"There's not a lot of art forms where you can control your presentation and your ideas."

"There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope."

"When Scorsese shoots a violent scene, it's very uncomfortable - it's not like watching 'Rambo.'"

"I thought 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' was so interesting the way it was made and the texture of it."

"I've always seen My Chemical Romance as the band that would have represented who me and my friends were in high school, and the band that we didn't have to represent us - the kids that wore black - back then."

"You put an old Misfits record on, and it sounds like it came out yesterday."

"Did Superman really want to save the world, or did he just feel like he had to? Would he much rather be a farmer? Maybe. Would he much rather be hanging out with his dad and his mom and his dog? Probably."

"So many people treat you like you're a kid so you might as well act like one and throw your television out of the hotel window."

"All of my favourite albums have this incredible amount of conceptual glue to them, even if they are not telling a story."

"I love watching 'Twilight Zone.' New Year's Eve they do the marathon; I watch it every year."

"As free and crazy as we want to be, and how much we want to make the world a canvas, there's also a part of us that doesn't want to make any mark."

"What I like about The Sims is that I don't have a normal life at all, so I play this game where these people have these really boring, mundane lives. It's fun."

"Comics are my first love, and I hate seeing an art form that I love suffer."

"My Chemical Romance is done. But it can never die."

"I wouldn't have been able to move to L.A. if I felt I was going to lose my identity as a New Jerseyian. My accent has gotten thicker since I've lived here."

"Most times with vanity projects, publishers don't believe in the work; they just believe in the name."

"'The Black Parade' is an epic, theatrical, orchestral, big record that is also a concept album."

"The sweetest memory is that which involves something which one should not have done; the bitterest, that which involves something which one should not have done, and which one did not do."

"There were moments when I hated everybody I came across, innocent or guilty, and looked at them as thieves who were robbing me of my life with impunity. The most unbearable misfortune is when you yourself become unjust, malignant, vile; you realize it, you even reproach yourself - but you just can't help it."

"People feel the worst film I made was 'Jack.' But to this day, when I get checks from old movies I've made, 'Jack' is one of the biggest ones. No one knows that. If people hate the movie, they hate the movie. I just wanted to work with Robin Williams."

"I've been offered lots of movies. There's always some actor who's doing a project and would like to have me do it. But you look at the project and think, 'Gee, there are a lot of good directors who could do that.' I'd like to do something only I can do."

"I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak any Russian. He didn't care whether I could understand what they were saying; he wanted me to make up dialogue."

"I wrote the script of Patton. I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives this speech. Ultimately, I was fired. When the script was done, they hired another writer and that script was forgotten."