"When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it."

"Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?"

"But no, I don't really like romantic comedies, so I don't really care. I never go see 'em."

"It seems to me that one thing people do over and over again is try to figure out how to get married, stay married, fall in love, how to rekindle all this stuff. It seems to me to be a pretty eternal theme so I don't know if you can get typecast from making movies about men relating to women. It seems to be what is going on on the planet a lot."

"A courageous heart knows that shadows are only cast by the presence of light."

"In the arithmetic of human affection, the more you give, the more you retain. Remember this in moments of decisive trial."

"I love bikes. I used to own one, but I fell off it when I was younger and that was the end of my bike riding days until now."

"Man is only great when he acts from passion."