“True religion has, at its core: Love, Peace, Mercy, Justice and Freedom. If any of these elements is not fully present in a religion, the religion has been compromised.”

I used to draw a lot. If my mother would ask me to do something else, I’d have a hairy conniption. I’d just go crazy.

There was a time when people said, ‘Jim, if you keep on making faces, your face will freeze like that.’ Now they just say, ‘Pay him!’

Usually you regret the things you say no to.

People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.

Free cable is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

You know the trouble with real life? There’s no danger music.

Ever since I started to get recognition I’ve picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.

Acting is divine dissatisfaction. It’s the greatest thing in the world to do, but you are never satisfied with it ever.

Ya know what I do almost every day? I wash. Personal hygiene is part of the package with me.

I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I’m just trying to create a good one for myself.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least of which, was that you can fail at what you don’t want so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.

My father used to brag that I wasn’t a ham, I was the whole pig.

I just want to be myself.

I’ve arrived at the place if I’m not taking a career risk, I’m not happy. If I’m scared, then I know I’m being challenged.

150 people die every year from being hit by falling coconuts. Not to worry, drug makers are developing a vaccine.

A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankinds heritage.

Love is the most great law that ruleth this mighty and heavenly cycle, the unique power that bindeth together the divers elements of this material world

It is energy – the central element of which is will – that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action.

Everything destroyed is either resolved into the elements from which it came, or else vanishes into not-being. If things are resolved into the elements from which they came, then there will be others: else how did they come into being at all?

This was pointed out to me by somebody who referred to the paintings of Rembrandt and his use of light: some elements are highlighted while others are obscured or even pushed back into the dark.

My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.

There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who’s driving it.

What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.