"I met my grandfather just before he died, and it was the first time that I had seen Dad with a relative of his. It was interesting to see my own father as a son and the body language and alteration in attitude that comes with that, and it sort of changed our relationship for the better."

"My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message."

"I find what I do for a living really funny. I mean, acting is kind of a hilarious thing for a grown man to call a job."

"How serious can a movie about time-traveling robots be? You want it to be cool and fun."

"To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life."

"To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art men can only make us feel small in the wrong way."

"Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one."

"What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?"